Auction Closed
October 18, 08:42 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Guevara, Antonio de. Vita, gesti, costumi, discorsi, lettere di Marco Aurelio imperatore, sapientissimo filosofo, et oratore eloquentissimo, con la gionta di molte cose, che nello spagnuolo non erano, e delle cose spagnuole, che mancauano nella tradottione italiana. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546
8vo (153 x 100 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-T8: 152 leaves. Wo🌌odcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (C8 outer margin and lower corner renewed, mi☂nor marginal dampstaining, one or two stray stains.)
binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled paper-🐠covered boards (157 x 109 mm), spine with raised bands in five gilt compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1979. references: UCLA 364; Re𝓀nouard 139/28; Edit16 22162; USTC 835201