Apuleius. Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apulleii, [colophon: Venice, per Barthoomeum de Zanis, 1504, folio, Roman letter, dedication with architectural border, woodcut initials, white on black (title cleanly-torn and crudely-repaired, first and final leaves detached, light worming affecting text, 18th-century calf (crudely-rebacked, spine internally broken) [Adams A1371; Sander 484; Olschki 1914; not in BL] -- Juvenal. [Satyrae], cum commento Joannis Britannici, [Venice, Joannes Tacuinus de Tridino, colophon: 1509], folio, Roman letter, woodcut title illustration, 15 smaller illustrations in text (title torn with slight loss to border of illustration and restored, dampstained at upper and lower margins, lower outer corners restored, occasional ink marks), later 18th-century half vellum (spine chipped, spine label inverted). [Sander 3733; Essling 788; this edition not in Adams, Mortimer or BL] (2)
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Apuleius. Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum Aureum Lucii Apulleii, [colophon: Venice, per Barthoomeum de Zanis, 1504, folio, Roman letter, dedication with architectural border, woodcut initials, white on black (title cleanly-torn and crudely-repaired, first and final leaves detached, light worming affecting text, 18th-century calf (crudely-rebacked, spine internally broken) [Adams A1371; Sander 484; Olschki 1914; not in BL] -- Juvenal. [Satyrae], cum commento Joannis Britannici, [Venice, Joannes Tacuinus de Tridino, colophon: 1509], folio, Roman letter, woodcut title illustration, 15 smaller illustrations in text (title torn with slight loss to border of illustration and restored, dampstained at upper and lower margins, lower outer corners restored, occasional ink marks), later 18th-century half vellum (spine chipped, spine label inverted). [Sander 3733; Essling 788; this edition not in Adams, Mortimer or BL] (2)
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Provenance, Apuleius: Royal Society, London, the gift of Henry Howard of Norfolk (stamp on verso of title).
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