Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3) image 1
ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3) image 2
Lot 35

ALDINE PRESS
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,020 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

ALDINE PRESS

CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, colophon dated 1659, Aldine device on title and final leaf, light arc of damp-staining to upper fore-corner of opening 18 leaves, extensive ink annotations to title, opening leaves and final endpapers in nineteenth century hand, some marginal annotations in an earlier hand, later vellum, soiled, upper hinge cracked [Ahmanson-Murphy 572; Renouard 174:9], Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1558-1559--EURIPIDES. Hecuba, & Iphigenia in Aulide Euripidis tragdiæ, translated into Latin by Erasmus, capital spaces with guide-letters, nineteenth century red morocco, worn [Ahmanson-Murphy 1137; Renouard 309:24], [Lyon, c.1509], 8vo; and another, Aldine (3)

Footnotes

The Euripides is a counterfeit Aldine printed in Lyon.

Provenance: First, Wm. Dixon, nineteenth century ownership inscription on title; unidentified writer of most of the ink annotations; A.M. Woodward (1883-1973, archaeologist and classical lecturer), pencil inscription dated Nov. 1949; Second, Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield, his sale 'Bibliotheca Butleriana' ("the most extensive series ever submitted to Public Sale, of Books printed by Aldus Pius Manutius", catalogue introduction), Christie's, 1-9 June 1840, lot 746, tipped-in printed catalogue entry on front free endpaper; indecipherable ownership inscription dated 1875; Ernest Swain, bookplate.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ARCHITECTURE - STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT The Antiquities of Athens, 4 vol. bound in 2, 1825-1830

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

ARMENIAN - HISTORY, THEOLOGY AND PRINTING. Group of books/a map in Armenian, c.1825-1901 (12)

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]

BANK NOTES - MANUFACTURING BRADBURY (HENRY) On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1856