Accession number
PML 1587
Creator
Sallust, 86-34 B.C.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Ianuario M.D.XXI [January 1521].
Description
[8], 142, [2] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes
152ff-title & prels. 8ff; text 142 numbered ff + 1 blank + 1f with anchor.
Binding
16th century French gold-tooled red morocco, with motto: "Nulli plus fortuna quam consilium valet" (rear board), perhaps by Claude de Picques; repaired and rebacked.
Provenance
Unidentified motto: "Fortuna nulli plus qua[m] consiliu[m] valet" (rear board; see also PML 1176); Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), his sale: Bibliothca Aldina: Evans (London), 26 June 1828, lot 521 for £6.10.0 to: Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford
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