RHETORUM GRAECORUM ORATIONES, in Greek: Orationes Horum Rhetorum; Orationes Infrascriptorum Rhetorum; Isocrates Orationes, etc. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Asulanus, April 1513 - 7 May 1513.
RHETORUM GRAECORUM ORATIONES, in Greek: Orationes Horum Rhetorum; Orationes Infrascriptorum Rhetorum; Isocrates Orationes, etc. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Asulanus, April 1513 - 7 May 1513.
Editio princeps of the works of the Attic orators, with the exception of Demosthenes (who had already been published), and one of the most important publications of the Aldine Press. Without a leaf between 14 and 15, blank but for 2 lines in Greek and Latin advising the binder to cut it away, which is preserved in a few copies (cf. Renouard, who adamantly asserts that copies without this leaf are not imperfect). Adams O-244; Ahmanson-Murphy 95/1-4; Bigliazzi, Laurenziana, 114; Hoffman III, p.167; Renouard 60:2.
3 parts in 2 volumes, folio (308 x 197mm). With blank leaves n4 and nn4, titles to each part in Greek and Latin, Latin addresses by Aldus to Francesco Faseolo in part I and to Giambattista Egnazio in part III, colophon and register in Latin at end of parts II, III(i) and III(ii). Aldine device on each title and at end of part III (Fletcher f4 on parts I-II and at end, f3 on III), initial spaces with guide-letter (small repairs in first title, some spotting and occasional small stain, occasional light browning, heavier in about 3 quires, occasional marginal wormhole). The volumes probably brought together at the time of binding; 19th-century vellum, gilt spines with red and green labels, vol. 2 blue edges (lightly scuffed at corners, a little light marking). Provenance: Nicolo Maria Modafari (early inscription in vol. 1) – annotations in Greek and Latin in several early hands, different in each volume.
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RHETORUM GRAECORUM ORATIONES, in Greek: Orationes Horum Rhetorum; Orationes Infrascriptorum Rhetorum; Isocrates Orationes, etc. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Asulanus, April 1513 - 7 May 1513.
Editio princeps of the works of the Attic orators, with the exception of Demosthenes (who had already been published), and one of the most important publications of the Aldine Press. Without a leaf between 14 and 15, blank but for 2 lines in Greek and Latin advising the binder to cut it away, which is preserved in a few copies (cf. Renouard, who adamantly asserts that copies without this leaf are not imperfect). Adams O-244; Ahmanson-Murphy 95/1-4; Bigliazzi, Laurenziana, 114; Hoffman III, p.167; Renouard 60:2.
3 parts in 2 volumes, folio (308 x 197mm). With blank leaves n4 and nn4, titles to each part in Greek and Latin, Latin addresses by Aldus to Francesco Faseolo in part I and to Giambattista Egnazio in part III, colophon and register in Latin at end of parts II, III(i) and III(ii). Aldine device on each title and at end of part III (Fletcher f4 on parts I-II and at end, f3 on III), initial spaces with guide-letter (small repairs in first title, some spotting and occasional small stain, occasional light browning, heavier in about 3 quires, occasional marginal wormhole). The volumes probably brought together at the time of binding; 19th-century vellum, gilt spines with red and green labels, vol. 2 blue edges (lightly scuffed at corners, a little light marking). Provenance: Nicolo Maria Modafari (early inscription in vol. 1) – annotations in Greek and Latin in several early hands, different in each volume.
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