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ALDINE PRESS. [POETAE CHRISTIANI VETERES]. PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, AURELIUS. Opera -- SEDULIUS. Mirabilium Divinorum libri IV [and other works, edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1501-June 1502. Vols. 1 and 2 only (of 3), 4to, 202 x 146 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.), nineteenth-century red morocco, spines gilt, g.e., traces of green staining to edges of vol. 1, loss to vol. 1 spine at head, vol. 2 backstrip gone, joints split, extremities rubbed, lacking final blank in vol. 2, marginal filled wormhole to first 2 leaves in vol. 1, occasional light foxing, light dampstaining in vol. 2 mainly affecting extreme outer margins, 2 outer sheets of quire i in vol. 2 severely browned, slight soiling to first and last quires. Roman and Greek type, vol. 2 with the variant 2-line note (beginning "Cautum est...") on fol. [8]r, woodcut Aldine anchor device on [8]v within double rule border; quires A-K in vol. 2 misbound between quires k and aa.
Vol. 2 contains the FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ALDINE ANCHOR AND DOLPHIN DEVICE, printed at the end of the preliminary text. Adams P-1685; Brunet IV, 756; Renouard 24-26.1 ("collection infiniment rare et préciuese... le peu d'exemples qui restent sont presque tous plus ou moins incomplets").
Provenance: A few early marginalia in vol. 1 -- Nineteenth-century pagination and scattered annotations in vol. 2 -- Armorial inkstamp at head of vol. 2 title, repeated on d6v, scratched out in ink -- "L," inkstamp on vol. 2 title -- Giorgio Di Veroli, bookplates (sale, Parke-Bernet, 26 February 1956, lot 700; the second Di Veroli copy [complete with vol. 3], lot 701 from the same sale, was sold by Manhattan College at Christie's New York on 1 June 1991 [lot 108]). (2)
Vol. 2 contains the FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ALDINE ANCHOR AND DOLPHIN DEVICE, printed at the end of the preliminary text. Adams P-1685; Brunet IV, 756; Renouard 24-26.1 ("collection infiniment rare et préciuese... le peu d'exemples qui restent sont presque tous plus ou moins incomplets").
Provenance: A few early marginalia in vol. 1 -- Nineteenth-century pagination and scattered annotations in vol. 2 -- Armorial inkstamp at head of vol. 2 title, repeated on d6v, scratched out in ink -- "L," inkstamp on vol. 2 title -- Giorgio Di Veroli, bookplates (sale, Parke-Bernet, 26 February 1956, lot 700; the second Di Veroli copy [complete with vol. 3], lot 701 from the same sale, was sold by Manhattan College at Christie's New York on 1 June 1991 [lot 108]). (2)