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GELLIUS, Aulus (c.125 - after 180). Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti, edited by G.B. Egnazio [Cipolli]. Venice: Aldus, September 1515. 8°. Woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf of text, with the blank 2D8 (title soiled, light marginal waterstaining at beginning, lower corner of AA3-BB1 repaired, last few leaves waterstained, some light spotting and thumb-soiling). Early Italian calf, sides panelled in blind, inner panel with central blindstamped motif of flames surrounded by 6 rosettes (skilfully rebacked with old spine relaid, new endpapers, rubbed). Provenance: Augustinian Convent of St Lorenzo, Pisa (inscription on title) -- some old marginal annotations and underlining.
FIRST EDITION with 'duernionem' on the last leaf. A collection of essays which contain many descriptions of drinking and dining customs. The work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty-two books which include everything of unusual interest that Gellius heard in conversation or read in books. This is one of the last works printed by Aldus before he died in 1515. Renouard 73.9; Adams G343.
FIRST EDITION with 'duernionem' on the last leaf. A collection of essays which contain many descriptions of drinking and dining customs. The work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty-two books which include everything of unusual interest that Gellius heard in conversation or read in books. This is one of the last works printed by Aldus before he died in 1515. Renouard 73.9; Adams G343.
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