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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius Caecilius (62-113). Epistolarum libri decem. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, November 1508.
8 (166 x 95mm). Italic type, Aldine device 2 on final verso. 30 lines and headline. Initial spaces with guide-letter. (Washed.) 19th-century calf-backed orange paper boards, spine tooled in gilt and blind (cracks at lower corner, neat split at upper hinge). Provenance: contemporary annotations in a humanist hand (lightly washed).
First Aldine edition. The colophon contains the first mention of the association between Aldus and his father-in-law, Andreas Asulanus. Adams P-1536; Ahmanson-Murphy 82; Renouard Alde 53:3.
8 (166 x 95mm). Italic type, Aldine device 2 on final verso. 30 lines and headline. Initial spaces with guide-letter. (Washed.) 19th-century calf-backed orange paper boards, spine tooled in gilt and blind (cracks at lower corner, neat split at upper hinge). Provenance: contemporary annotations in a humanist hand (lightly washed).
First Aldine edition. The colophon contains the first mention of the association between Aldus and his father-in-law, Andreas Asulanus. Adams P-1536; Ahmanson-Murphy 82; Renouard Alde 53:3.