Live auction - Lot 1291
[Cicero]
Thesaurus contexendarum epistolarum ex M.T. Ciceronis operibus.
Antwerp, J. Trognesius, 1602
Hammer price: €
160
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: 304-[8] pp. (cut a bit short at top edge shaving some headlines; toning).
Old marbled calf, gilt spine with raised bands (lower corners repaired). Good copy.
Very rare Antwerp edition of this letter writing aid book, by the 16th-c. Augsburg playwright A. Diether. Containing useful phrases on all kinds of themes like money, youth, famous people, love, etc. out of the works of Cicero.
Ref. STCV. - Not in Simoni.
Prov. "Guilelmus Honar, humanitatio auditor, 1627" (ms. entry; this pupil wrote his name several times throughout the book, also on title). - A few other ms. entries. - Libr. label.