Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/554
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    68 zl 72 Cicero (M. T.) De Orricns rr PARADOXA, PRINTED ON VELLUM, gothic letter, 88 UW. (244 mm. by 167 mm.), 28 long lines to a page, title, etc. in red, large initials in red, blue and gold, smaller initials in red and blue alternately, no printer’s mark (a small law in the vellum damaging two words of the teat and two similar but slightly larger flaws repaired before printing), citron morocco gilt, g.e. sm. folio. Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schiffer, Feb. 4th, 1466 *,* KEINE Copy from the library of Sir M. M. Sykes. CicERO. ‘THE THRE BOOKES OF TULLYES OFFYCES bothe in latyne tonge & in englysshe lately translated by Roberte Whytinton poete laureate, tlack and italic letter, title within an ornamental woodcut border, Wynkyn de Worde’s device on the verso of the last leaf (a corner of one leaf torn, some few words of the text missing, some passages underlined and corrected), calf gilt 8vo. [Colophon] Imprinted ... in flete strete by Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of our lorde god. MDXXXIIL, the xxx day of September [1534] type by Wynkyn de Worde. CICERO. RHETORICA NOVA ET VETUS AB OMNIBONO LEONICENO EDITAE, FIRST EDITION, roman letter, long lines, 30 to a page, 138 dl. [cf. Hain, *5057; Proctor, *4065; Pellechet, 3650], initial Ki on first page in gold and colours, two other initials in gold on coloured grounds with white interlacings, small worm-hele through the margin of the first few leaves, two or three letters defective on the recto of the tenth leaf, red morocco gilt, gilt back, g. é. FINE COPY 4to. (104 in. by Téin.) Venice, N. Jenson, 1470 A VERY FINE AND RARE EDITION. ‘Thereare two variations from the details given by Pellechet who agrees also with Hain. (i) P. 1, lines 2-3 end ‘‘Suppeditare po/ssimus” instead of ‘“Suppeditare /possumus.” The colophon in capitals at end is “Marci Tullii Ciceronis Orato / Ris Clarissimi Rhetoricorvm / Veterum Liber Vltimvs Felici / Ter Explicit. / M.ccocc. Lxx.” CICERO. ORATIONES a Nicolao Angelio Bucinensi nuper maxima diligentia recognitae et excusae, PRINTED ON VELLUM, old black morocco gilt 8v0. FKlorentiaesumptu Philippi untae, 1515 Cicero. Philippicae, Mlorentiae, P. Junta, 1515; Verrinae, title mended, 7b. 1515; Libri Oratorii, blank corner of title mended, ib. per haeredes P. luntae, 1526; Quaestiones Tusculanae, 7b. [Bernardo & Benedetto Junta], 1532; together 4 vol.; from the
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