Oppianus Anazarbensis, Oppianou Aleutikon biblia pente, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1517, contemporary tan calf, Flemish (?) mid-1540s

Oppianus Anazarbensis. Oppianou Aleutikon biblia pente. Tou autou Kynegetikon biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem De uenatione libri IV. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V [Greek and Latin]. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1517

Another copy.

8vo (145 x 88 mm). Greek and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-x⁸ (n7 and n8 blanks): 168 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (marginal tear to title, some spotting and staining, worming to final leaves.)

binding: Contemporary tan calf (170 x 105 mm), Flemish (?) mid-1540s, multiple blind rules framing inner rectangle also formed by multiple blind rules, gilt rampant lions at outer angles, crowned bicephalic eagle device at centers, spine with raised bands in six compartments, compartments with alternating gilt fleur-de-lis and dolphin devices. (Rebacked, rubbed with small restoration to corners, joints strengthened with vellum manuscript waste.)

provenance: Early inscription "Emptus ex anthoni librorum magister Colnilii Ottonis mar 5 Christopher Vlaterum" to title- page — inscription "Vente Drouot 1979" to endleaf — Carlo Alberto Chiesa, Milan (?). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, 2015. references: UCLA 160; Renouard 81/9; Edit16 37566; USTC 845399; Adams O-200