CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Brief Recueil des plus belles Sentences & Manières de parler, des Epistres familiaires de M. T. Ciceron, Paris: Arnoul l'Angelier, 1556, small 8°, small woodcut initials with floral ornament, l'Angelier's angel device as tailpiece, brown crushed morocco by Bauzonnet, circa 1833-35, double filleted gilt frames to covers, gilt arms with initials of Adolphe Audenet to covers, spine elaborately tooled in gilt (spine lightly faded, covers with a few light stains), bookplates of Adolphe Audenet and J. Gomez de la Cortina, marques de Morante, g.e. [Brunet II, 59 (citing this copy); not in Adams or BL Catalogue]

细节

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Brief Recueil des plus belles Sentences & Manières de parler, des Epistres familiaires de M. T. Ciceron, Paris: Arnoul l'Angelier, 1556, small 8°, small woodcut initials with floral ornament, l'Angelier's angel device as tailpiece, brown crushed morocco by Bauzonnet, circa 1833-35, double filleted gilt frames to covers, gilt arms with initials of Adolphe Audenet to covers, spine elaborately tooled in gilt (spine lightly faded, covers with a few light stains), bookplates of Adolphe Audenet and J. Gomez de la Cortina, marques de Morante, g.e. [Brunet II, 59 (citing this copy); not in Adams or BL Catalogue]

拍品专文

A rare selection of phrases from Cicero in Latin, French and Italian, of considerable linguistic interest in a fine binding by Bauzonnet, "one of the great binders of the period before 1848" (Ramsden).