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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De Officiis, commentary by Paolo Manuzio. Venice: Giorgio Angelieri for Aldo Manuzio the younger, 1581. 2° (302 x 203mm), with blanks, woodcut portrait vignette of Aldus the Elder on title, engraved head-pieces (light scattered spotting). 19th-century brown calf preserving 16th-century mottled calf blind panelled covers, red edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Society of Jesus, Ingolstadt (inscription on title) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). Adams C-1778; Ahmanson-Murphy 643; Renouard p. 229.7.
PHAEDRUS. Fabulae. Paris: Joseph Barbou, 1754. 12°, engraved frontispiece, 7 vignettes and 5 culs-de-lampe by Fessard and Sornique after Durand (without half-title for Avianus at N2 as per Yale copy, occasional browning). 18th-century French red morocco gilt, flat spine, edges gilt. Provenance: Thomas Clark, Bookseller (book ticket) -- Colquhoun, of Camstradden (bookplate) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate). THE COLQUHOUN COPY of this illustrated edition ('jolies illustrations'; Cohen-de Ricci), with the fables of Avianus at the end. Cohen-de Ricci 798; Sander 1544.
SCHOPPER, Hartmann. Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et atutia vulpeculae. Frankfurt: [Nicolaus Bassaeus,] 1584. 12°, engraved printer's device on title, 57 woodcuts vignettes by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis (first vignette and text on verso supplied in manuscript facsimile, without final blank, occasional soiling). 19th-century green half morocco (rubbed). Provenance: J. Baart de la Faille, Groningen (bookplate) -- G. H. Powell, Oct. 3, 1887 (inscription) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate). Brunet IV 1222. (3)
PHAEDRUS. Fabulae. Paris: Joseph Barbou, 1754. 12°, engraved frontispiece, 7 vignettes and 5 culs-de-lampe by Fessard and Sornique after Durand (without half-title for Avianus at N2 as per Yale copy, occasional browning). 18th-century French red morocco gilt, flat spine, edges gilt. Provenance: Thomas Clark, Bookseller (book ticket) -- Colquhoun, of Camstradden (bookplate) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate). THE COLQUHOUN COPY of this illustrated edition ('jolies illustrations'; Cohen-de Ricci), with the fables of Avianus at the end. Cohen-de Ricci 798; Sander 1544.
SCHOPPER, Hartmann. Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et atutia vulpeculae. Frankfurt: [Nicolaus Bassaeus,] 1584. 12°, engraved printer's device on title, 57 woodcuts vignettes by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis (first vignette and text on verso supplied in manuscript facsimile, without final blank, occasional soiling). 19th-century green half morocco (rubbed). Provenance: J. Baart de la Faille, Groningen (bookplate) -- G. H. Powell, Oct. 3, 1887 (inscription) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate). Brunet IV 1222. (3)
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