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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.) De oratore. Rome: Ulrich Han, 5th December 1468.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.) De oratore. Rome: Ulrich Han, 5th December 1468. Royal half-sheet 4 o (277 x 185mm). Collation : [1-5 1 0 6-7 8 (1/1r bk I, 3/8v bk II, 7/8v blank); 8 1 0 9-10 8 (8/1r bk III, 10/7v colophon, -10/8 blank)]. 91 leaves (without final blank). Single paper stock (scissors watermark). Gothic type 1:150 (first line of text), Roman type 2:86 (text). 36 lines. Four illuminated white-vine initials (badly damaged). (Leaf 3/8 inserted verso/recto, extensively restored as a result of damp, especially at beginning and end, occasionally affecting text, washed.) Modern vellum binding. Provenance : [Lathrop Harper (cost code)]; Eric Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 141; purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. The second book printed by Han at Rome. Second edition of the most finished of Cicero's treatises on oratory, a particularly popular text with Italian humanists. After a Donatus, Sweynheym and Pannartz had chosen it as the first major production for their Subiaco press; their Roman reprint came just after Han's edition. RARE (the only American copy is in the Morgan Library). HC 5099; GW 6743; BMC IV, 18; IGI 2942; Goff C-655; Flodr 98.41.