Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. M. T. Ciceronis De inventione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, qui dicitur Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib I. Eiusdem Topica ad Trebatium lib I. Eiusdem oratoriae partitiones lib I. Eiusdem de optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam. Index rerum notabilium, quae toto opere continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. Varietas lectionum, quam ex diversorum exemplarium collatione collegimus. (Venice: in the house of the heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1533)
A relatively simple retail binding by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?), active as a binder in Venice from around 1518 to 1555, and probably worked as a binder for the Torresano workshop for some of that time.
4to (213 x 131 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: *-**8 a-k8 l4 m-z8 A-G8 H10: 262 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. Some early manuscript annotations in a humanist hand in brown and red ink. (Title- page lightly soiled with small wormholes, small ink stain on G1-2.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian black morocco gilt by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?) (223 x 145 mm), a panel composed of blind and gilt fillets with corner fleurons and small flower stamps, lettered M.T.C. RETORIC. on upper cover, blind fillets across spine compartments, dark blue edges, manuscript fragment along front flyleaf. (Extremities somewhat rubbed, small repairs to ends of spine, front flyleaf slightly torn.)
provenance: Johann Weikhard, count of Auersperg (1615-1677), inscription on title-page stating that this was entered into the library catalogue in 1655, and armorial bookplate of the library of the counts of Auersperg, Ljubljana — [by descent to] Johanna de Mailhos (née Auersperg), sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 14-15 June 1982, lot 89, £385, to Breslauer. acquisition: Purchased from Sotheby's sale via Martin Breslauer. references: UCLA 258; Cataldi Palau 122; Edit16 12232; Renouard 107/1; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), appendix 5: bindings by the Mendoza Binder, no. 96
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. M. T. Ciceronis De inventione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, qui dicitur Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib I. Eiusdem Topica ad Trebatium lib I. Eiusdem oratoriae partitiones lib I. Eiusdem de optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam. Index rerum notabilium, quae toto opere continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. Varietas lectionum, quam ex diversorum exemplarium collatione collegimus. (Venice: in the house of the heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1533)
A relatively simple retail binding by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?), active as a binder in Venice from around 1518 to 1555, and probably worked as a binder for the Torresano workshop for some of that time.
4to (213 x 131 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: *-**8 a-k8 l4 m-z8 A-G8 H10: 262 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. Some early manuscript annotations in a humanist hand in brown and red ink. (Title- page lightly soiled with small wormholes, small ink stain on G1-2.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian black morocco gilt by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?) (223 x 145 mm), a panel composed of blind and gilt fillets with corner fleurons and small flower stamps, lettered M.T.C. RETORIC. on upper cover, blind fillets across spine compartments, dark blue edges, manuscript fragment along front flyleaf. (Extremities somewhat rubbed, small repairs to ends of spine, front flyleaf slightly torn.)
provenance: Johann Weikhard, count of Auersperg (1615-1677), inscription on title-page stating that this was entered into the library catalogue in 1655, and armorial bookplate of the library of the counts of Auersperg, Ljubljana — [by descent to] Johanna de Mailhos (née Auersperg), sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 14-15 June 1982, lot 89, £385, to Breslauer. acquisition: Purchased from Sotheby's sale via Martin Breslauer. references: UCLA 258; Cataldi Palau 122; Edit16 12232; Renouard 107/1; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), appendix 5: bindings by the Mendoza Binder, no. 96
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