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[Opera]
by Caesar, Gaius Julius
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Narberth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Asolano, 1519. CONTEMPORARY DARK BROWN FLEMISH PANEL-STAMPED CALF (c. 1530; corners worn, front hinge cracked), ruled outer frame, the panel stamp of wyverns, acorns, foliage, drawer handles and artichokes (see Goldschmidt's Gothic & Renaissance Book Bindings 134), rope marks fill the top and bottom spine compartments and the other three compartments have blind rolls on either side of the bands (crown and base defective), later manuscript-lettered paper spine label, evidence of four ties, edges gilt and gauffered with lozenges and daisies, vellum pastedowns from a 13th-century manuscript written in northern France.
The most widely known European military campaign of foreign conquest and civil war. Its simple, lucid prose style instructed Latin students for a half a millennium.
Excepting the front matter (papal privileges, errata, etc.), this edition is a paginary reprint of the innovative Aldine of 1513, which offered the first with text-specific illustrations. Each of the book's two parts, the ancient texts and Raimondo Marliani's geographic index, has its own colophon, dated some months apart. Aldus' heirs distributed the first copies of the 1518/19 edition with the four quires - identically signed and foliated - of the 1513 geographic index still in stock, before incurring the additional labor and expense of producing a new edition of the index.
This copy belonged to the fierce Scottish patriot, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), who spent a decade in exile on the Continent, scheming against the British crown. He participated in Monmouth's aborted June 1685 invasion of England. Escaping a Bilbao prison while under sentence of death, Fletcher traveled incognito on the Iberian peninsula, working in libraries and buying books, then traveled east to fight the Turks in Hungary before returning to Scotland to continue his drive for its independence. This copy crossed the Channel with his Netherlands agent, Alexander Cunningham. Characteristically, Fletcher signed his name on the rear pastedown. A fine large copy in original condition.
¶Essling, Les Livres à figures vénitiens 1733-34; Sander, Le Livre à figures italien 1510; Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde 88,11; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie. Lateinische Schriftsteller I: 41; Brown, "Gaius Julius Caesar" in Catalogus translationum ed. Cranz III: 96; EDIT16 CNCE 8155.
Details
- Bookseller
- Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11902
- Title
- [Opera]
- Author
- Caesar, Gaius Julius
- Format/Binding
- CONTEMPORARY DARK BROWN FLEMISH PANEL-STAMPED CALF (c. 1530; corners worn, front hinge cracked), ruled outer frame, the panel st
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Asolano
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Date Published
- 1519
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About the Seller
Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
Biblio member since 2020
Narberth, Pennsylvania
About Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
Since 1979 we have specialized in pre-1830 European book and manuscripts, with an emphasis on early printing, illustration, copy specific characteristics, bindings, and condition.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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