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Lot 60
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
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$531
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Lot Description
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.