Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum romanarum ... Liber de legibus. Venice, Paolo Manuz…

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Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum romanarum ... liber de legibus. Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1557. Bound with: Sigonio, Carlo.Regum, consulum, dictatorum, ac censorum Romanorum Fasti. Modena, Antonio Gadaldini, 1550; Fulvio, Andrea.Antiquitates urbis.[Rome: Marcello Silber, c. 1527]. In 2nd (285 x 196 mm). First work: [4], LXXX, [2] papers. Large typographic mark of Aldo Manuzio on title page (small tear in margin of two papers); second work: [22] papers. Typographical mark to title page and colophon, part of text in red and black; third work:[10], XCVI [but 10]2, [6] papers.Title page in elaborate xylographic historiated frame, xylographic initials (blank paper missing in first fascicle, reinforcement to inner margin of last paper, some blooming). Eighteenth-century bindings in bazzana with threading and corner fleurons to the plates, friezes and title in gilt to the spine, within slipcase (spine rebacked). Ex libris byEarl of Jersey, Osterley Park; Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Middle Temple; William John Belt; H. Malherbe; Aldina collection of Stelio Valentini. Fine provenance specimen of this interesting miscellany of 3 works devoted to antiquity. Lot sold in 2018 at Sotheby's, The Sergio Rossetti Library.

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Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum romanarum ... liber de legibus.

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CICERONE, Marcus Tullius - MANUZIO, Paolo. Ciceronis De Oratore libri 3. Venetiis, [Paolo Manuzio], 1559. 8vo; 150x95 mm. Full vellum binding. Manuscript title to spine. Typographic mark on title page. cc. 240 [i.e. 248]. Good copy. Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), Aldo's youngest son, was a highly influential publisher and one of the most important humanists of the late Italian Renaissance. This is the second volume of three, published separately, of the Opera Rhetorica, edited by Paulus Manutius with the text based on the 1546 edition and corrected by Manuzio himself.Cicero was a Roman statesman, jurist and scholar, The greatest orator of the late Republic. This volume is a remarkable collection of his works on rhetoric, in which he presents the canons of this complex discipline, its history and teaches how to use it. 8vo; 150x95 mm. Full vellum binding. Handwritten title on spine, Printer's device on titlepage. L. 240 [i.e. 248]. Good copy. Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), the youngest son of Aldo, was a very influential publisher and one of the most important humanists of the late Italian Renaissance. This is the second volume of three, published separately, of the Opera Rhetorica, edited by Paulus Manutius with the text based on the 1546 edition and corrected by Manuzio himself.Cicero was a Roman statesman, jurist and scholar, the greatest orator of the late Republic. This volume is a remarkable collection of his works on rhetoric, in which he presents the canons of this complex discipline, its history and teaches how to use it.

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CICERON, Marcus Tullius - MANUZIO, Aldo. Locutioni dell'epistole di Cicerone scielte da Aldo Mannucci. Venice, [Aldo Manuzio il Giovane], 1582 8vo; 160x100 mm. Rustic binding. Manuscript title to spine. Pp. [48], 367, [65]. Frontispiece in xylographic frame; xylographic friezes with putti and gorgons; xylographic figured initials, italic typeface. On paper a2 dedication by Aldo Manuzio, dated August 1, 1575, to Claudio Pozzo. Good copy. Rare edition. Refined dictionary of style with expressions, formulas and idioms taken from Cicero's letters. Important work by the young Aldo Manuzio, 1547-1597, publisher, printer and scholar, son of Paolo and grandson of the more famous Aldo Manuzio the Elder. These 'Locutioni' chosen by the young and extremely erudite Aldo Manuzio, are offered in Italian and Latin: they will prove, as the subtitle indicates, "most useful for composing in the one and the other Language." They also contain full-bodied Indexes, in Italian and Latin, to find the locutions contained in the book. Russo: "... the volume on the Locutioni of Cicero's epistles ... in which the treatments that M., following in his father's wake, had devoted for years to the Ciceronian epistolary (a similar volume starting with the works of Terence would appear in 1585) converged and was reused in a manualistic key." Renouard notes that in this work the young Aldo adopts the new signature 'Aldo Mannucci" to suggest a kinship between his family and that of the noble Mannucci family of Florence.Renouard p. 231, n. 6. Emilio Russo, D.B.I., Vol. 69, 2007. 8vo; 160x100 mm. Sewing binding. Handwritten title on the spine. Pp. [48], 367, [65]. Title page in woodcut frame; woodcut ornaments with cherubs and gorgons; illustrated woodcut initials, italic type. A2 leaf dedication by Aldo Manuzio, dated August 1, 1575, to Claudio Pozzo. Good specimen. Rare edition. Refined style dictionary with expressions, formulas and idioms taken from Cicero's letters. Important work by the young Aldus Manutius, 1547-1597, publisher, printer and scholar, son of Paolo and nephew of the more famous Aldus Manutius the Elder. These 'Locutions', chosen by the young and extremely erudite Aldo Manuzio, are proposed in Italian and Latin: they will be, as the subtitle indicates, "very useful for composing in both languages." They also contain substantial indices, in Italian and Latin, to find the phrases contained in the book. Russo: "... the volume on the Locutions of the Epistles of Cicero ... in which the care that M., following in his father's footsteps, had devoted for years to the Ciceronian epistolary converged and was reused in a manualistic key (a similar volume starting from the works of Terence would have appeared in 1585)." Renouard notes that in this work the young Aldo adopts the new signature 'Aldo Mannucci" to suggest a kinship between his family and that of the noble Mannuccis of Florence.

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