AULUS GELLIUS (ca 123 - ca 165). Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti. G.B. Egnazio [Cipolli], editor. Venice: Aldus, September 1515.
AULUS GELLIUS (ca 123 - ca 165). Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti. G.B. Egnazio [Cipolli], editor. Venice: Aldus, September 1515.
8vo (153 x 82 mm). Roman, Greek, and italic types, Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf. (A few leaves at beginning and end with minor worming occasionally affecting letters, browning to title-page.) 18th-century sheep, edges sprinkled red (some light wear, hinges starting). Provenance: Philip Hermann (signature dated 1635); Earls Cowper (Panshanger bookplate).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "duernionem" in the colophon, one of the last works printed by Aldus before his death in 1515. Adams G343.
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AULUS GELLIUS (ca 123 - ca 165). Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti. G.B. Egnazio [Cipolli], editor. Venice: Aldus, September 1515.
8vo (153 x 82 mm). Roman, Greek, and italic types, Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf. (A few leaves at beginning and end with minor worming occasionally affecting letters, browning to title-page.) 18th-century sheep, edges sprinkled red (some light wear, hinges starting). Provenance: Philip Hermann (signature dated 1635); Earls Cowper (Panshanger bookplate).
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "duernionem" in the colophon, one of the last works printed by Aldus before his death in 1515. Adams G343.
Books and Manuscripts