DONATUS. Eight orations in eight books, divided into nine pa - Lot 20

DONATUS. Eight orations in eight books, divided into nine parts: [...] & Seneca the Younger: Cato [...]. No place, no date. [in the colophon]: Milan, Augustino de Vicomercato for Giovanni Giacomo da Legnano and his brothers, January 27, 1520. Gothic in-4, stiff vellum, title label on the spine, red edges (18th-century binding). Second edition, annotated and commented on by Joannes Policarpus Severitanus, a scholar and theologian of Croatian origin who died in the first quarter of the 16th century. The first edition was published in Perugia in 1517. Printed in Milan in round and Gothic typefaces, adorned with a woodcut on the title page depicting the author in his study. A lovely Legnano printer’s mark on the verso of the last leaf. The following work was bound together with it: CRASSUS DE RIPPOLIS (Damianus). Questo coram celeberrima papiensi achademia prima... No place, no date [Milan, Joannes de Castelliono for Legnano, February 9, 1510]. Incomplete by 7 leaves. Engraved bookplate by Hubert Elie. Water stains and foxing throughout the volume.

Estimate:£417.33

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