Sallustius Crispus, De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem De bello Iugurthino, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1521, contemporary Venetian(?) brown morocco

Sallustius Crispus, Gaius. C. Crispi Sallustii De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem De bello Iugurthino. Orationes quaedam ex libris Historiarum C. Crispi Sallustij. Eiusdem Oratio contra M. T. Ciceronem. M. T. Ciceronis Oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem Orationes quatuorcontra Lucium Catilinam. Porcij Latronis Declamatio contra Lucium Catilinam. Quae omnia solerti nuper cura repurgata sunt, ac suo quaeque ordine optime digesta. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1521

Second Aldine edition, based on the text of 1509, with a new preface by Gian Francesco d' Asola, who states that he has corrected numerous errors and also consulted “excellent and very ancient codices” (Id autem scito, me et optimis, et uetustissimis hoc in faciendo opere, usum esse exemplaribus).

8vo (160 x 89 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-t⁸: 152 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf. (Intermittent light spotting.)

binding: Contemporary Venetian(?) brown morocco (165 x 102 mm), frame formed by two sets of double gilt fillets, inner pair with exedrae, central roundel surrounded by open trefoils and containing SA/LLVSTI/VS, traces of four pairs of fabric ties, gilt & gauffered edges. (Rebacked, areas of staining to pastedowns.)

provenance: Thomas Connolly, Dublin, his ticket: T. Connolly, Bookseller, 10 Up. Ormond Quay, Dublin — Rev. Roderick Taylor Terry (1849-1933), ex libris. acquisition: Purchased from Phillp J. Pirages, McMinnville, OR, 1999. references: UCLA 194; Renouard 93/16; Edit16 53893; USTC 854247; Cataldi Palau no. 60