Live auction - Lot 870
[Italy - Venice]
Tusculanae disputationes.
Venice, [A. de Strata de Cremona], 5 December 1491
€ 1.200 / 1.800
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Folio: [58] ff., 44-56 ll. (some minor marg. soiling, sm. hole in blank bottom margin of final f.).
Mod. limp vellum, flat spine, sp. edges (warping). Nice copy.
Early separate ed. (1st 1472) of a major philosophical work of Cicero. Ref. ISTC ic00638000. - GW 6896. - Goff C-638. - Polain 1100. - BMC V:295. - BSB-Ink C-406. - Not in CIBN. Prov. Cont. ownership entry (on a1v): “1511 | Hic liber est Jo[annis] bapt(ist)e beniuoli gra(m)matici et ciuis brixie” (Brescia) and a number of marginal annotations in the same hand (cropped). - Old ownership entries on a2r (deleted). - [Georges Petit].