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(Auteur de l'antiquité & Alde) - - TACITUS, Publius Cornelius.- Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus, et emendatus [...]. ( VENETIIS, IN AEDIBUS HAEREDUM ALDI MANUTII ROMANI, ET ANDREAE ASULANI SOCERI), 1534. In-8° : [12]-260 lvs (margins of title-page repaired slightly affecting a few letters on the reverse, some other marginal restorations, stains or dampstains mostly marginal, marginal wormholes in the beginning, foxing, numerous on some lvs, rare marginal holes, some marginalia). 19th century monogrammed binding : threequarter blue calf, boards of blue cloth encircled with a gilt roll-stamp, gilt decorated flat spine with red leather label and monogram "LLB" (used on the edges, corners strongly dulled, boards slightly rubbed, binding almost entirely loose).
UNIQUE ALDINE EDITION of the works of Tacitus, based on the edition in-f° of 1533 by Rhenanus (1485-1547), friend and biographer of Erasmus. With corrections of Rhenanus and notes of André Alciat. Aldine's anchor on the title-page and on the back of last leaf. # Renouard pp. 112-113; # Dibdin II-450; # Adams T-25; # USTC 857890; # EDIT 1627227; # STC Italy 654; # not in Soltész, nor in Machiels. Provenance : Bruno Lizio in Messina, 1853 (handwritten mentions and gilt monogram on the spine "LLB" for Letterio Lizio Bruno). Lizio (1837-1908) was a well-known poet and author, considered as the most elegant writer of Sicily. -- Unique édition aldine des oeuvres de Tacite. Demi-veau bleu monogrammé à coins du 19e s. (marges du titre restaurées, qqs réparations marg., taches ou mouill., rel. presque entièrement détachée...). Top J'enchéris