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      • Aldus.- Manutius (Aldus) Orthographiae ratio, 2 parts in 1, Venice, Aldus, 1591.
        Jul. 05, 2022

        Aldus.- Manutius (Aldus) Orthographiae ratio, 2 parts in 1, Venice, Aldus, 1591.

        Est: £200 - £300

        Aldus.- Manutius (Aldus, the younger) Orthographiae ratio, 2 parts in 1, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, with the final blank, title lightly soiled and with old contemporary ink inscription crossed out at foot, very occasional light staining, cropped, modern vellum with strap, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Adams M454; Renouard 246:3], 8vo, Venice, Aldus, 1591. ⁂ The second, enlarged, edition, of this important work to establish a system for the uniform spelling of Latin words. It was first issued in 1561 and again in 1566 with the addition of inscriptions and selections from ancient manuscripts.

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      • 1518 AD Leaf From the Aldine Greek Bible
        Oct. 04, 2020

        1518 AD Leaf From the Aldine Greek Bible

        Est: $200 - $400

        1518 AD Leaf From the Aldine Greek Bible. The Aldine Greek Bible was an edition of the Bible in Greek (the Septuagint is used for the Old Testament) begun by Aldus Manutius, and published in Venice in 1518 by the Aldine Press. It is the first complete Bible printed entirely in Greek (the Old Testament is the Septuagint) to be published. Sheet size: 11 x 7.5 inches. Unframed.

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      • Gellius, Aulus ( c . 125-after 180). , Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, September 1515
        Oct. 02, 2008

        Gellius, Aulus ( c . 125-after 180). , Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, September 1515

        Est: £1,000 - £1,500

        8vo (144 x 86mm.), second ("correct") issue with 'duernionem' on final leaf, ff. [32], 289, [51], italic letter, illustration : woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf, binding : eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt, sides panelled with 2-line borders, fleur-de-lys at corners, spine gilt in compartments with fleurs-de-lys, gilt edges , a few light damp-stains in margins, lower outer corner of A3 torn away with partial loss of a few words, lower outer corners of last 2 leaves repaired without loss

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      • HERODOTUS (c.490 - c.425 B.C.). [ Histories , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502.
        Jun. 06, 2007

        HERODOTUS (c.490 - c.425 B.C.). [ Histories , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502.

        Est: £15,000 - £18,000

        HERODOTUS (c.490 - c.425 B.C.). [ Histories , in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502. Aldine 2° (313 x 200mm). Collation: AA-RR 8 SS 4 (AA1r Greek and Latin title, printer's woodcut anchor-and-dolphin device [Fletcher 2a], AA1v editor's dedicatory letter to Giovanni Planza dei Ruffinoni, called Calpurnius [1443-1503, professor of Greek at Padua University], AA2r text, SS4r register and colophon, SS4v device [Fletcher 2]). 140 leaves. Greek types 3:84 (text) and 4:79 (dedication), italic type 1:80 (title, dedication), roman type 10:82 (register, colophon). 55 lines and headline, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (First leaf slightly affected by damp.) 18th-century mottled calf gilt, anchor-and-dolphin device stamped on both covers, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Jesuit College (inscription on title washed out) -- Beriah Botfield, purchased for 3 gns (1807-63; sale Christie's, 13 June 2002, lot 36). EDITIO PRINCEPS of Herodotus's history of the Persian Wars, one of the most important texts edited by the great scholar-printer-publisher himself. Aldus claims in the dedication that he corrected the text from multiple exemplars, one of the few instances where such a claim by him is justified and can be verified. He was the first to have access to the 'Florentine' codices, where Valla had used the so-called Roman family of manuscripts for his translation. The printer's copy was discovered in Nuremberg by Brigitte Mondrain in 1993 ( Scriptorium 49 [1995], pp. 263-273). The Herodotus was designed to match the Aldine Thucydides of four months earlier: they share a paper stock, all types and the number of lines per page. Isaac 12782; Renouard 35.8; Murphy 50; Sansoviniana 67; Laurenziana 64; Dionisotti & Orlandi XL.

        Christie's
      • MANUTIUS, ALDUS (1452-1515). Grammaticae Institutiones Graecae, in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus (c.1470-1517). Venice: Aldine Press [Andreas Torresanus and sons], November 1515.
        Jul. 11, 2002

        MANUTIUS, ALDUS (1452-1515). Grammaticae Institutiones Graecae, in Greek. Edited by Marcus Musurus (c.1470-1517). Venice: Aldine Press [Andreas Torresanus and sons], November 1515.

        Est: $23,400 - $31,200

        4o (204 x 149mm). Aldine dolphin-and-anchor device (Fletcher 5) on title and final verso, woodcut strapwork headpiece, initial spaces with guide-letter. Greek (text) and roman (title, dedication, colophon) types. Device and headpiece lightly highlighted with yellow. (First and last page very lightly soiled, occasional light stain or dampstain.) Late 18th-century red morocco gilt, triple fillet border on sides, stipple floral tool in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (missing spine label, light rubbing at spine extremities). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF ALDUS'S OWN GREEK GRAMMAR. Having devoted his extensive publishing career to the promotion of classical literature and the aids with which to study them, Aldus's own Greek grammar remained unfinished at his death on 6 February 1515. His devoted friend and frequent editor, Marcus Musurus, prepared the text for posthumous publication, dedicating it to the renowned French bibliophile and patron (and later agent at Paris) of the Aldine Press, Jean Grolier. In his heartfelt address to Grolier mourning Aldus's premature death, brought on in part by Aldus's habit of putting work before health, Musurus sets out a desiderata for Aldus's successors at the press, listing the Old and New Testaments, commentaries on the poets and on Aristotle, Galen, Strabo, Pausanias, and Plutarch's Lives, among others. With few exceptions, they were published by the Aldine press in subsequent years. RARE. No copy has sold at auction since 1965. Copies of Aldus's Latin grammar, printed in more than a dozen editions, are often confused with it. Adams M-428; Ahmanson-Murphy 120; Bibliazzi, Laurenziana, 133.9; Renouard 73:10 (trŠs rare).

        Christie's
      • THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ History of the Peloponnesian War, in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, May 1502.
        Jun. 13, 2002

        THUCYDIDES (c.460/455 - c.399 B.C.). [ History of the Peloponnesian War, in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, May 1502.

        Est: $14,900 - $22,350

        Aldine 2o (313 x 208mm). Collation: A 8 (title, editor's dedication to Daniele Renier, Aphthonios Sophista's encomium of Thucydides from his Progymnasmata, anonymous biography, biography and critical note by Marcellinus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Thucydidean idiom, Suidas' biography, A8 blank); 2A-O 8 P 4 (text, P3v quire register and colophon, P4 blank). 124 leaves. Greek types 3:84 (text) and 4:79 (dedication), italic type 1:80 (dedication), roman type 10:82 (incidental). 55 lines and headline, initial-spaces with guide-letters. Ruled in red. (Small marginal wormhole.) Gold-tooled blue straight-grained morocco, floral border on sides, spine decorated and lettered in compartments, roll-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, binding signed at foot of spine by Bozerian jeune. Provenance : Antoine-Augustin Renouard 1765-1853 (Botfield note in P. & F. Acquisitions p.87, binding, manuscript ruling) -- Beriah Botfield (10 gns from Payne and Foss). EDITIO PRINCEPS of the most important work in Greek historiography. According to Enoch Powell ( The Aldine Scholia to Thucydides 1936), Aldus edited the text from a Cretan manuscript, Paris BnF suppl.gr.256 from the Pantin Collection (nr 40); Martin Sicherl ( Griechische Erstausgaben des Aldus Manutius. Druckvorlagen 1997) found no evidence in the manuscript of printer's use, suggesting that another Cretan copy of the same recension served as exemplar. In any case, the printer's copytext was undistinguished, much inferior to the lost manuscript from which Lorenzo Valla had made his Latin translation (Treviso: c. 1483 [Klebs 971.1]). The recipient of Aldus's dedicatory letter, Daniele Renier, was a Venetian senator, procurator of San Marco and collector of Hebrew, oriental and classical manuscripts. The printer mentions how Renier frequently comes to his shop to see what Greek or Latin text might be under production. Pressed, but A FINE COPY. Isaac 12777; Renouard 33.4; Murphy 45; Sansoviniana 60; Laurenziana 60; Dionisotti & Orlandi XXXVII.

        Christie's
      • HERODOTUS (c.490 - c.425 B.C.). [ Histories, in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502.
        Jun. 13, 2002

        HERODOTUS (c.490 - c.425 B.C.). [ Histories, in Greek]. Edited by Aldus Manutius (c.1452-1515). Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502.

        Est: $14,900 - $22,350

        Aldine 2o (313 x 200mm). Collation: AA-RR 8 SS 4 (AA1r Greek and Latin title, printer's woodcut anchor-and-dolphin device [Fletcher 2a], AA1v editor's dedicatory letter to Giovanni Planza dei Ruffinoni, called Calpurnius [1443-1503, professor of Greek at Padua University], AA2r text, SS4r register and colophon, SS4v device [Fletcher 2]). 140 leaves. Greek types 3:84 (text) and 4:79 (dedication), italic type 1:80 (title, dedication), roman type 10:82 (register, colophon). 55 lines and headline, initial-spaces with guide-letters. (First leaf slightly affected by damp.) 18th-century mottled calf gilt, anchor-and-dolphin device stamped on both covers, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, (binding rebacked). Provenance: Jesuit College (inscription on title washed out) -- Beriah Botfield, purchased for 3 gns (pencil inscription). EDITIO PRINCEPS of Herodotus's history of the Persian Wars, one of the most important texts edited by the great scholar-printer-publisher himself. Aldus claims in the dedication that he corrected the text from multiple exemplars, one of the few instances where such a claim by him is justified and can be verified. He was the first to have access to the 'Florentine' codices, where Valla had used the so-called Roman family of manuscripts for his translation. The printer's copy was discovered in Nuremberg by Brigitte Mondrain in 1993 ( Scriptorium 49 [1995], pp. 263-273). The Herodotus was designed to match the Aldine Thucydides of four months earlier: they share a paper stock, all types and the number of lines per page. Isaac 12782; Renouard 35.8; Murphy 50; Sansoviniana 67; Laurenziana 64; Dionisotti & Orlandi XL.

        Christie's
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