Sallustius Crispus, De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem De bello Iugurthino, Venice, Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1509, Venetian morocco, ca. 1510

Sallustius Crispus, Gaius. C. Crispi Sallustii De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem De bello Iugurthino. Eiusdem oratio contra M.T. Ciceronem. M.T. Ciceronis oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quatuor contra Lucium Catilinam. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catilinam. Orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum. C. Crispi Sallustii. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, April 1509

Another copy—the Gancia-Renard-Béraldi-Abrams copy in a fine Venetian contemporary binding.

8vo (160 x 104mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-s⁸ t⁴: 148 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and final verso. (Small chip to lower edge of title, light soiling to title, closed tear to o1.)

binding: Venetian morocco (164 x 102 mm), ca. 1510, border of a repeated arabesque tool, three knotwork tools in center panel, vine leaves at outer and inner corners, title on both covers, traces of four pairs of ties, spine with four compartments, gilt and gauffered edges. (Endpapers renewed, small portions of restoration to head and foot of spine and edges, recased(?).) Housed in a nineteenth-century blue morocco box (Gruel?).

provenance: Unidentified early owner, occasional marginalia and underlining in red ink — Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris; his sale, Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, 27 April-2 May 1868, lot 980; purchased by — possibly Antoine-Laurent Potier — Joseph Renard (1822-1882), bookplate; his sale, Maurice Delestre & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 21-30 March 1881, lot 1195 — possibly Librairie Damascène Morgand, Paris, with stock number in pencil — Henri Béraldi (1849- 1931); his sale, Étienne Ader & Léopold Carteret, Paris, 29 May-1 June 1934, lot 33; purchased by — Heinrich Eisemann, London — Thomas B. Stevenson — Christie's New York, 18 May 1984, lot 88 — George Abrams (1920-2001); his sale, Sotheby's London, 16-17 November 1989, lot 213. acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Martin Breslauer Inc. references: UCLA 103; Renouard 57/3; Edit16 37431; USTC 854230