Live auction - Lot 498
[Catalogue - Aldine]
Catalogue de la bibliothèque belle et très riche de littérature grecque et latine [...] et de linguistique de feu Mr. David Jacob Van Lennep, professeur d'eloquence et de belles lettres [...].
Amsterdam, Muller, 1855
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: [4]-208 pp.
Sewn with orig. pr. wr. (spine strengthened with tape). Good, unopened copy.
Important and rare auction catalogue of D.J. Van Lennep (1774-1853) with 3468 lots, many on classical authors and neo-Latin poetry. Also a large collection of rare 15th c., Aldine and Estienne editions. Ref. Blogie IV:80. - Vandenhole 1977. We join: 4 other cat. on Aldine imprints: Catalogo ragionato dei libri di prima stampa e delli edizioni Aldine e rare esistenti nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Palermo. Vol. III Supplemento. Palermo, Lao, 1886. - Catalogue of a most important collection of publications of the Aldine press, 1494-1595, with illustrations. London, Quaritch, 1929. - Catalogo N. 320 della Libreria antiquaria Alb. Bocca, Roma. Aldina. Grande collezione di libri stampati dagli Aldi. Siena, Paoli, 1929. - Bibliotheca Aldina. A collection of 800 prints of Aldus Manutius and his successors. Leipzig, Fock, 1933. (5 vol.)