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Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quictum Fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.
by Cicero:
- Used
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Venetiis [Venice], Aldus [apud Pauli Manutium, Aldii filium], 1558 [but 1559]. 8vo. ff. [iv], 332, [xiv]. Title with woodcut Aldine device, one or two marginal notes (trimmed) and very occasional underlining in an early hand, old paper repair strengthening the gutter of B1 (f. 5), a little very light spotting; lacks 2 final leaves, blank and blank except for repeated printer’s device. Mid twentieth-century blind-stamped calf and bookplate, early ownership inscription shaved from title. This edition contains a new preface dated 1558; the colophon is dated 1559. Renouard, ‘des Alde’, 174:9. Book
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7591
- Title
- Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quictum Fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.
- Author
- Cicero:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Venetiis [Venice], Aldus [apud Pauli Manutium, Aldii filium]
- Date Published
- 1558 [but 1559]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical & Byzantine Literature & Philosophy;
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