1571 ALDINE PRESS LATIN EPISTLES by Paolo Manuzio 16th CENTURY antique VELLUM

(Aldine Press)


Epistolarum Pauli Manutii Libri X duobus nuper additis:
Eiusdem quae Praefationes appellantur

[bound with]


Praefationes quibus. libri ad. illustres. viros aut. ad. amicos missi commendantur

[and]

Epistolarum Libri IX et X

by Manuzio, Paulo

Venice: In Aedib. Manutianis; 1571


Three volumes bound in one.

[xv], 467; 139, [12]; 67, [4] pp.


Italic type.

Two woodcut portraits of Aldus Manutius at A1v of first and third parts.


(8vo) 15.5x9.5 cm (6x3¾"),

Full vellum, title at spine.



With device of Aldus Iunior.

Collection of Latin epistles by the Venetian scholar and publisher Paolo Manuzio, third son of Aldus the Elder, founder of the Aldine Press.

Letters are dated between 1558 and 1570, and were edited and printed by Paolo's eldest son, Aldus the Younger (Aldus Iunior), who took over the family business in 1561. (Ahmanson-Murphy, A22a.)

Vellum soiled, minor toning, very good.

Text in Latin
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