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AUSONIUS. Ausonius. Edited by Hieronymous Avancius. Venice: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, November 1517. 8° (152 x 92mm.). Woodcut Aldine anchor on title and verso of final leaf (inner blank margin of title strengthened, a2 neatly repaired with loss of a few characters (supplied in manuscript), blank margin of a5 holed and neatly repaired). Late-17th/early-18th century red morocco gilt, g.e. (spine faded). FIRST ALDINE EDITION. Renouard pp.80-81. - BIONDO, Flavio. De Roma Triumphante libri decem [...Liber quintus, ad decimum usque eiusdem argumenti librum]. Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1533. 2 volumes in one, 8° (155 x 104mm.). Woodcut printer's device on first title (second title holed, some worming to lower margins of second volume). 18th-century red morocco gilt (joints split, spine chipped at hiead and foot). Provenance: Philip Griffin (inscription); J.Church (inscription). Cf.Adams B-2068 (vol.I only). - PANDONI, Petrus (called Porcelius) & others. Trium Poetarum Elegantissimorum, Pocelii, Basinii, & Trebani opuscula. Edited by Christopher Preudhomme. Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1539; bound with two other similar but incomplete works. 3 works in one volume, 8° (164 x 98mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title. Later calf (rebacked). Provenance: Fran. Panton (signature); Dr. Richard Mead (1673-1754, note of purchase at the sale of his books in 1755, in an unidentified hand). Adams P-143; and six others. (9)