Peto, De mensuris, et ponderibus Romanis, et Graecis, Venice, Aldo II Manuzio, 1573, seventeenth-century vellum

Peto, Luca. Lucae Paeti iurisconsul. De mensuris, et ponderibus Romanis, et Graecis, cum his quae hodie Romae sunt collatis libri quinque. Eiusdem variarum lectionum liber vnus. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1573

Second Aldine edition, following the first published in folio format earlier in the same year. With four leaves of woodcut illustrations, the present represents a rare work on the Greek and Roman standards of measurement relative to ancient architecture, economy, mathematics, and numismatics.

4to (240 x 170 mm). Roman type, 38 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-E⁸ F⁴ G-H² I-K⁸ **⁴: 72 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials, six woodcut plates, two of which full-page. (Scattered staining, foxing, and browning.)

binding: Seventeenth-century vellum (248 x 175 mm), flat spine. (Minor soiling, small split at foot of spine.)

provenance: Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), inkstamp to title-page — Albert Garrigues, ex libris. acquisition: Possibly purchased from Librairie Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1963. references: UCLA 861; Renouard 217/12; Edit16 27507; USTC 847775