Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

8vo (165 x 102 mm). With Aldus woodcut anchor and dolphin device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. (Corner tear to title-page and laid down, tiny repair to *2.) 19th-century vellum, covers framed with a blue wash background within gilt frame, viny frame within, spine divided into 6 compartments by frames in blue wash and gilt, lettering-piece gilt in 2nd, others with central devices gilt, BY EDWARDS OF HALIFAX (recased); slipcase. Provenance: Early notations on Y2v and showing through to laid down title-page; Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin (1790-1849), Russian Empire general and military historian (armorial bookplate).

FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION, in the original Latin, of all eight surviving books of Quintus Curtius Rufus's history of Alexander the Great, here with the title-page in its first setting, omitting the "r" in "Curtius", which has been corrected by stamping an R between the U and T. Adams C3120; BM STC Italian, p.207; Ahmanson-Murphy 164; EDIT16 13880; Renouard 88:1; USTC 825121.