Sallustius Crispus, Coniuratio Catilinae et Bellum Iugurthinum, Venice, Aldo II Manuzio, 1567, nineteenth-century English green straight-grained morocco

Sallustius Crispus, Gaius. C. Sallustii Crispi Coniuratio Catilinae et Bellum Iugurthinum fragmenta eiusdem historiarum, e scriptorib. antiquis ab Aldo Manutio, Pauli f. collecta. Scholia. Aldi Manutii index, rerum & verbor. Memorabilium. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1567

A new edition of the preceding lot, containing additional fragments of the Historiae and expanded or slightly revised notes.

8vo (136 x 90 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: ^πA⁸ A-R⁸ S-X⁸ Y-Z⁸ AA-CC⁸: 216 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf, guide letters in initial spaces. (Occasional light dampstaining, repairs to first three leaves, some instances of shaved text.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English green straight-grained morocco (141 x 100 mm) (ticket of Storr of Grantham), gilt floral border around sides, gilt Aldine device on covers, spine gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. (Joints starting.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription "Symon Corsius (?)" on folio A3 — Sir John Thorold, 9^th Bt. (1734-1815) — by descent to Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10^th Bt. (1773-1831) — by descent to Sir John Henry Thorold, 12^th Bt. (1842-1922); his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1738; purchased by — William Ridler, London, armorial ex libris — Sotheby's London, 19-22 March 1888, lot 986; purchased by — William Ridler, London. acquisition: Purchased from B.H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1976. references: UCLA 791; Renouard 203/13; Edit16 53852; USTC 854285