[Aldina]. Speroni, Sperone. Dialogues. Venice, heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1543. In 8° (157 x 94 mm); 170, [2] papers. Typographical mark to title page and colophon (reinforcement to title page, stain to colophon, small wormhole to white inner margin of first few papers). Late 18th-century vellum binding, gold title on double gusset at spine. Second aldine edition, printed a year after the first and edited by Daniela Barbaro. Also in the lotQuae hoc volumine continentur by Ovid in the 1533 Aldo edition with pasted frontispiece andElegantiarum by Lorenzo Valle, also printed by Aldo in 1536, with restored and pasted frontispiece. (3)

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