Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri tres: Cato maior, vel De senectute. Laelius, vel De amicitia. Paradoxa stoicorum sex. Somnium Scipionis ex libro sexto De Republica. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, March 1545
The very fine de Thou–Renouard–Holford copy.
8vo (157 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8 Q10: 130 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, ruled in red, inserted engraved frontispiece portrait of Cicero.
binding: Blue morocco richly gilt (163 x 102 mm) by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux (active 1777-1801), flat spine, gilt edges, pink watered silk board liners, vellum endleaves.
provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, signature “Thuanus” on title and last leaf; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.9 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue]) — Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853, stamp signed on inner front cover; his catalogue, 1819, II, p.100, and sale, Evans, 26-30 June 1828, lot 122) — George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon (1802-1866), listed in the manuscript library catalogue of Sudbury Hall — Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892, manuscript note on slip tipped to front free endpaper), and his son, Sir George Holford (1860-1926, sale, Sotheby & Co., 5-9 December 1927, lot 201, £25, to Bernard Quaritch) — Sir Robert Henry Abdy (1896-1976, bookplate, sale, Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, 29039 April 1976, lot 46 — Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, Beaux livres anciens et modernes (1996), item 14 — Cuvreau, Paris, 24 March 2009, lot 6. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Thomas-Scheler. references: UCLA 323 (not in collection); Edit16 12267; Renouard 131/75
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri tres: Cato maior, vel De senectute. Laelius, vel De amicitia. Paradoxa stoicorum sex. Somnium Scipionis ex libro sexto De Republica. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, March 1545
The very fine de Thou–Renouard–Holford copy.
8vo (157 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8 Q10: 130 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, ruled in red, inserted engraved frontispiece portrait of Cicero.
binding: Blue morocco richly gilt (163 x 102 mm) by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux (active 1777-1801), flat spine, gilt edges, pink watered silk board liners, vellum endleaves.
provenance: Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617, signature “Thuanus” on title and last leaf; Pierre Dupuy, Catalogus bibliothecae Thuanae, Paris, 7 April 1680, II, p.9 [not traced in 1789 Soubise sale catalogue]) — Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853, stamp signed on inner front cover; his catalogue, 1819, II, p.100, and sale, Evans, 26-30 June 1828, lot 122) — George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon (1802-1866), listed in the manuscript library catalogue of Sudbury Hall — Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892, manuscript note on slip tipped to front free endpaper), and his son, Sir George Holford (1860-1926, sale, Sotheby & Co., 5-9 December 1927, lot 201, £25, to Bernard Quaritch) — Sir Robert Henry Abdy (1896-1976, bookplate, sale, Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, 29039 April 1976, lot 46 — Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, Beaux livres anciens et modernes (1996), item 14 — Cuvreau, Paris, 24 March 2009, lot 6. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Thomas-Scheler. references: UCLA 323 (not in collection); Edit16 12267; Renouard 131/75
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