M.T. Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Atticum, ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, libri XX. nuper exacta recogniti cura M.D.XXI. : Latina interpretatio eorum, quæ in ijs ipsis epistolis Græce scripta sunt. ubi multa & mutata, & addita sunt. admonemus igitur lectorem, ut inde sibi librum corrigat suum.

Accession number

PML 1277

Creator

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Published

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri., Mense Ianuario. M.D.XXI [January 1521]

Notes

Leaves 221 and 253 misnumbered 121 and 353, respectively.
Publication statement taken from colophon.
Aldine device on title page and at end.

Description

[16], 331, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)

Provenance

Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel and shelfmark: B6 (front pastedown), purchased 1839 (perhaps from J. Bohn, inscription on rear pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Binding

19th-century brown morocco with older (16th century, Italian?) brown morocco panels laid-over, including gilt-fillet and blind-tooled profile bust of a classical Roman.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books