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ALDINE PRESS. CAESAR (JULIUS): [Works] Hoc volvmine continentvr, Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII; De Bello ciuili Pompeiano libri III; De bello Alexandrino liber I; De bello Africano liber I; De Bello Hispaniensi liber I.: Pictura totius Galliæ, & Hispaniæ, ex C. Cæsaris
Venetiis [apud Paulum Manutium], 1559. 8vo, 168 x 112 mms., [16] + 318 + [2] leaves, 2 double-page engraved maps, 5 engraved plates, leaf 239 correctly numbered, leaf 298 numbered 290, Aldine anchor on verso of last leaf but one, contemporary limp vellum(soiled); some slight water-staining in lower margin of first 50 leaves, interior spine visible between A1 and A2, some wear to fore-margins and corners, partial ms. transcription of title-page and date on recto of blank leaf before title-page, with the autograph "Joannes Gromi" [sic], and the autograph "Polidoro Gromi" in the lower margin of about 20 leaves, with a ms. copy of the Aldine anchor on the recto of the last leaf with "gro" and "mus" on anchor sides, and some initial chapter letters expanded in ms. by, presumably, Joannes or Polidoro. This edition is by Giovanni Giocondo and was first published in 1513.
Offered for GBP 2145.00 = appr. US$ 3509.22 by: John Price Antiquarian Books - Book number: 6653
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