DEMOSTHENES (384-322 B.C) and AESCHINES (389-314 BC). Demosthenis et Aeschinis mutuae accusationes de ementita legatione, & de Corona, ac contra Timarchum quinque numero. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1545. 8° (145 x 100mm). Printer's device on title, repeated on final verso, historiated and ornamental woodcut initials. (Some marginal wormholes to title and inner margin of following five leaves, title lightly soiled.) Contemporary vellum, title and shelf-mark label on spine, marbled edges (some wormholes). Provenance: Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.J. Letteraria (stamp on title and E1) --Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamps on title).
DEMOSTHENES (384-322 B.C) and AESCHINES (389-314 BC). Demosthenis et Aeschinis mutuae accusationes de ementita legatione, & de Corona, ac contra Timarchum quinque numero. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1545. 8° (145 x 100mm). Printer's device on title, repeated on final verso, historiated and ornamental woodcut initials. (Some marginal wormholes to title and inner margin of following five leaves, title lightly soiled.) Contemporary vellum, title and shelf-mark label on spine, marbled edges (some wormholes). Provenance: Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.J. Letteraria (stamp on title and E1) --Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamps on title).

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DEMOSTHENES (384-322 B.C) and AESCHINES (389-314 BC). Demosthenis et Aeschinis mutuae accusationes de ementita legatione, & de Corona, ac contra Timarchum quinque numero. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1545. 8° (145 x 100mm). Printer's device on title, repeated on final verso, historiated and ornamental woodcut initials. (Some marginal wormholes to title and inner margin of following five leaves, title lightly soiled.) Contemporary vellum, title and shelf-mark label on spine, marbled edges (some wormholes). Provenance: Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.J. Letteraria (stamp on title and E1) --Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamps on title).

A RARE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. Only one auction sale recorded in recent years (ABPC/AE online). Adams D-293.

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