Pontano, Opera, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, 1533, eighteenth-century vellum

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. Pontani Opera. Vrania, siue De stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De hortis Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina, siue pastorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus, Maeon, Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae uero in toto opere habeantur, in indice, qui secunda pagina incipit, licet uidere. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, August 1533

8vo (155 x 90 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *⁸ a-z⁸ aa-hh⁸ (z8 a blank): 256 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, instances of early marginalia. (Scattered staining and foxing.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum (162 x 104 mm), gilt-lettered red morocco label to spine, edges speckled red. (Minor soiling, small chips to label.)

provenance: Louis-Alexandre Gitton du Plessis (1800-1888), armorial ex libris — Jules Édouard de la Morandière (1813-1895, called Potier de la Morandière after 1865), armorial ex libris — E.K. Schreiber, New York. acquisition: Purchased from E.K. Schreiber, New York, 1985. references: UCLA 262; Renouard 108/6; Edit16 27213; USTC 850320