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CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib IIII. M. T. Ciceronis de inventione lib. II ..., [Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, March 1514].
4°, printer's device to title and verso of final leaf (title quite soiled, lower margin of gathering C slightly shorter, laminated repairs to inner margin of C3-8 occasionally affecting a few letters but sense recoverable, lower margin of a few gatherings wormed, a few margins lightly waterstained), old style blind-stamped calf with ties. Provenance: extensive marginal annotations in two early hands.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. In the dedication Aldus complains to his Latin editor Andrea Nabagero (1483-1527) how his work is constantly being interrupted by the amount of visitors that come to see him and also by the amount of time he has to spend on answering all the letters he receives. Adams C1676; Renouard p. 65.1.
4°, printer's device to title and verso of final leaf (title quite soiled, lower margin of gathering C slightly shorter, laminated repairs to inner margin of C3-8 occasionally affecting a few letters but sense recoverable, lower margin of a few gatherings wormed, a few margins lightly waterstained), old style blind-stamped calf with ties. Provenance: extensive marginal annotations in two early hands.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. In the dedication Aldus complains to his Latin editor Andrea Nabagero (1483-1527) how his work is constantly being interrupted by the amount of visitors that come to see him and also by the amount of time he has to spend on answering all the letters he receives. Adams C1676; Renouard p. 65.1.