81 2504 Aldus Caesar C J

81 2504 Aldus Caesar C J

81 2504 Aldus Caesar C J

- Later endpapers; otherwise a fine copy.

= Preliminary leaves and first 6 numb. leaves capitals rubricated in yellow. Renouard p.83, 11; Adams C29; Schweiger p.41 ("Nachdruck der Aldine von 1513"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.

81 2505 Aldus Celsus A C

- Num. old/ contemp.(?) manuscript annotations in margin (mostly in first half); upper blank outer corner partly sl. waterstained; occas. (sl.) foxed in blank margins; title-p. duststained.

= Leaf T4 is blank as published; Renouard p.105, 1; Adams L1241; Schweiger p.90f; Norman Library 428; cf. Durling 908; Garrison-Morton 20: "The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about AD 30 it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus's superb literary style won him the title of Cicero medicorum. De medicina deals with diseases treated by diet and regimen and with those amenable to drugs and surgery. The manuscript.(...) was lost during the Middle Ages and re-discovered in Milan in 1443." The Medicinae libri VIII is the only preserved part of a larger encylopaedia written by Celsus. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.

81 2506 Aldus Cicero M T

- A few lvs. and fore-edge sl. inkstained; first lvs. upper outer corner sl. bumped. Fine copy.

= Renouard p.162, 17; Adams C1921; Schweiger p.166.

81 2507 Aldus Cicero M T

- Upper hinge broken; vaguely dampst. in upper margin; ±30 lvs. sl. wormholed in right (blank) margin; a few old annots. and underlining (incl. a collation note by the classical scholar Henry Drury); bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine darkened.

= Renouard p.157, 11; Graesse II, 169. Revised reprint of the Aldine edition of 1547.

81 2508 Aldus Dante Alighieri

81 2508 Aldus Dante Alighieri

81 2508 Aldus Dante Alighieri

81 2508 Aldus Dante Alighieri

- The general title w. vague traces of former bookplate, which has been removed, resulting in loss of most of the first Aldine printer's mark; tiny hole in lower margin of general title; modern owner's entry and two brown stains on first blank; annot. in ballpoint on final free endpaper; later (18th cent.?) scattered annots. in pen and ink in margins; occas. foxed in blank margins.

= Renouard p.73, 8; Sander 2321. The first Aldine edition of Dante to include illustrations. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.

81 2509 Aldus Livius Patavinus T

81 2509 Aldus Livius Patavinus T

- Partly waterstained in lower blank margin (mostly in second half of the text); several leaves sl. waterstained in text/ occas. sl. stained/ foxed in margins; title (dust)stained. Corners trifle rubbed; later marbled endpapers; upper joint starting; backcover 2 small wormholed patches. Nevertheless a good copy.

= Renouard p.166, 15; Schweiger p.531; Adams L1342. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.

81 2510 Aldus Lucanus

81 2510 Aldus Lucanus

- Old owner's entry of "Joannes Antonius Costa" on first free endpaper; scattered underlining and manicula in contemp. hand in pen and ink; crossed out entry on title-p.; partly (sl.) foxed (mainly in margins). Good/ fine copy.

= Renouard p.33, 3; Schweiger p.560; Adams 1557. The first Aldine edition of Lucanus' poem on the Roman civil wars. As Aldus writes in his preface addressed to Marcus Antonius Maurocenus (Marcantonio Morosini) (the owner of the manuscript used by Aldus for this edition), he has published it in a portable format that is easier to handle than the larger 4to and folio tomes in which the classics were usually published. He had also used this format a year earlier, in 1501, for his edition of Horace's Carminum Liber. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.

81 2511 Aldus Macchiavelli N

81 2511 Aldus Macchiavelli N

81 2511 Aldus Macchiavelli N

- Two sl. rubbed spots on frontcover. Contents very fine.

= Ad 1: Bertelli 70; Renouard p.139, 24 and Adams M25; ad 2: Bertelli 41; cf. Renouard p.120, 5 (note), dated 1537 and Adams M40 (variant title "Il Prencipe" and dated 1540). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.

81 2512 Aldus Musaios

- Title-p. dam. and repaired in lower blank margin; lacks first free endpaper; three leaves restored in blank outer margin; four leaves sl. chipped in blank outer margin.

= Renouard p.81, 8; Adams M1991; Schweiger p.208. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.

81 2513 Aldus Plautus T M

81 2513 Aldus Plautus T M

- Some lvs. w. scribbling (mostly in first half); first two leaves sl. yellowed in margins.

= Renouard p.94, 2; Adams P1487; Schweiger p.761.

81 2514 Aldus Quintilianus M F

81 2514 Aldus Quintilianus M F

- Pastedowns detached; lacks final free endpaper; first ±20 lvs. (sl.) spotted/ stained (1x w. loss of some words; 2x upper margin strengthened w. paper) and w. old annots./ underlining. Vellum sl. wrinkled. Nevertheless a good copy.

= Reprint of the Aldine edition of 1514 (with a list of Greek words used in the text and their Latin translation). Renouard p.93, 14; Adams Q56; Schweiger p.843. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

81 2515 Aldus Sallustius Crispus C

- Upper hinge almost broken; lacks both free endpapers; a few leaves (sl.) yellowed; some scattered contemp. annots.; occas. sl. stained. Vellum wrinkled; top of spine sl. dam.

= Renouard p.203, 13; Adams S163; Schweiger p.875. Reprint of the Aldine edition of 1563.

81 2516 Aldus Sallustius Crispus C

- Lacks final blank; title-p. sl. yellowed; occas. small contemp. marks in blank margin; first 10 leaves and final 4 leaves remargined; a few leaves sl. foxed in blank margin; a few lvs w. sm. stain (2x in text).

= Renouard p.93, 16; Adams S147; Schweiger p.871.

81 2517 Aldus Sallustius Crispus C

- Lacks last 2 lvs. (1 blank and 1 w. printer's mark); new endpapers; some scattered contemp. annots. (incl. on title-p.) and underlining; occas. sl. waterst. in blank margins; first part dogeared; 2 bookplates on upper endpaper.

= Renouard p.189, 15; Adams S159; Schweiger p.874.

81 2518 Aldus Scriptores historiae Augustae

81 2518 Aldus Scriptores historiae Augustae

- The colophon leaf at the end does not have the Aldine device called for by Renouard; title-p. and final few leaves trifle waterstained in outer/ inner margin; contents otherwise fine; old owner's entry on title. Lower corners worn; backstrip partly loosening; spine-ends restored.

= Renouard p.87, 8 (under Nervae & Traiani); Adams S781 (under Scriptores Historiae Augustae). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

81 2519 Aldus Statius P P

81 2519 Aldus Statius P P

- Bookplates on upper and lower pastedown; first and final few lvs. sl. foxed. Spine and corners (professionally) restored. Fine copy.

= Second Aldine edition, first published in 1502. Renouard p.88, 12; Adams S1672; Schweiger p.963. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

81 2520 Aldus Strozzi T V and E poetae pater et filius

81 2520 Aldus Strozzi T V and E poetae pater et filius

81 2520 Aldus Strozzi T V and E poetae pater et filius

- Title-p. several small holes and w. "Loci Capucinnorum Utini" written below vignette in pen and ink; later bibliographical annot. opposite title-p.; a few lvs sl. browned; occas sl. stained mostly in blank margin(s); final seven leaves increasingly wormholed. Binding a few worn spots.

= Renouard p.65, 10; Adams S1659. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.

81 2521 Aldus Fore edge painting Pontanus J J

81 2521 Aldus Fore edge painting Pontanus J J

81 2521 Aldus Fore edge painting Pontanus J J

81 2521 Aldus Fore edge painting Pontanus J J

- Lacks the final leaf w. the Aldine anchor printer's mark; title-p. and verso of final leaf sl. soiled.

= Renouard p.63, 7; Adams P1858. Provenance: W.H. Carwithen (bookplate on upper pastedown, signature on first blank and on title-p.) and thereafter "Edith Taylor The Glen".