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DEMOSTHENES (385-322 B.C.). Orationes duae & sexaginta. Libanii sophistae in eas ipsas orationes argumenta, in Greek, Ed. Aldus Manutius, Venice: Aldine Press [Andrea Torresano], November 1504 [but ca. 1520-1527].
2 parts in one volume, royal 4° (280 x 180mm.), Aldine woodcut Anchor device [Fletcher F6] (very occasional marginal browning), 19th-century vellum, gilt tooled border on sides, spine decorated gilt in compartments and with 2 calf lettering pieces (joints cracking in parts); title with two over-lapping library stamps, a few contemporary annotations.
Corrected second edition, reprinted by Torresano at the Aldine Press from Aldus's first edition of 1504. The original date was maintained in the colophon but the edition's true date must be about two decades later. Adams D-260; Fock pp. 19; Isaac 12804; Renouard 47.7.
2 parts in one volume, royal 4° (280 x 180mm.), Aldine woodcut Anchor device [Fletcher F6] (very occasional marginal browning), 19th-century vellum, gilt tooled border on sides, spine decorated gilt in compartments and with 2 calf lettering pieces (joints cracking in parts); title with two over-lapping library stamps, a few contemporary annotations.
Corrected second edition, reprinted by Torresano at the Aldine Press from Aldus's first edition of 1504. The original date was maintained in the colophon but the edition's true date must be about two decades later. Adams D-260; Fock pp. 19; Isaac 12804; Renouard 47.7.
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