CICERO, Marcus Tullius (b. 106 BCE). De officis, amicitia et senectute. Paradoxa eiusdem. Opus Benedicti Brugnoli… [Venice: Joanis Tacuino da Trino, 1508]. Folio in eights (310 x 202 mm). (Lacking the first 4 preliminary leaves, several leaves dampstained, sig. IIi6 [colophon] laid down on tissue). 5 full–page historiated woodcuts, 40 in text woodcuts (first full–page woodcut repaired at corners, some old marginalia to historiated woodcuts). Full early vellum, hand–titled spine, also hand–titled on fore–edge at foot (some splitting to lower joint, fresh endpapers). An early and surprisingly rare 1508 Venice printing of an illustrated folio edition of Cicero’s popular mortal treatise in the form of a letter of instruction to a young man. Sander 1968; Not in STC, Adams or Mortimer. From the private library of a distinguished Chicago book collector.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (b. 106 BCE). De officis, amicitia et senectute. Paradoxa eiusdem. Opus Benedicti Brugnoli… [Venice: Joanis Tacuino da Trino, 1508]. Folio in eights (310 x 202 mm). (Lacking the first 4 preliminary leaves, several leaves dampstained, sig. IIi6 [colophon] laid down on tissue). 5 full–page historiated woodcuts, 40 in text woodcuts (first full–page woodcut repaired at corners, some old marginalia to historiated woodcuts). Full early vellum, hand–titled spine, also hand–titled on fore–edge at foot (some splitting to lower joint, fresh endpapers). An early and surprisingly rare 1508 Venice printing of an illustrated folio edition of Cicero’s popular mortal treatise in the form of a letter of instruction to a young man. Sander 1968; Not in STC, Adams or Mortimer. From the private library of a distinguished Chicago book collector.
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