Terentius, Comoediae, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1541, French blue straight-grain morocco signed by F(rançois) Bozerian Jeune

Terentius Afer, Publius. Comoediae, multo, quam antea, diligentius emendatae. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1541

The third Aldine edition of the comedies of Terentius.

8vo (161 x 94 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-b⁸ 1-18⁸ 19⁴: 164 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and verso of final leaf, ruled in red. (A few light spots, short closed tear to f. 63, last leaf lightly soiled, clipping of 19^th- century French auction listing on rear flyleaf.)

binding: French blue straight-grain morocco signed by F(rançois) Bozerian Jeune (active 1802-1818) (166 x 98 mm), border of two gilt fillets containing blind egg and dart motif and gilt quatrelobe at corners, spine with six compartments flanked by gilt fillets, compartments with gilt double circular punch in center surrounded by blind floral tools, turn-ins with gilt greek key roll, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, pink silk bookmark. (Extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped, hinges weak.)

provenance: Abate Giovanni Battista Bearzi (b. 1796?) — Jakob Bader, Verzeichniss der hinterlassenen werthvollen Bibliothek weiland des Herrn Herrn Abbé Joh. Baptist Ritter von Bearzi (Vienna 1854), lot 576 — Boulouze & Edwin Tross, Paris, 31 May-28 June 1855, lot 2377 — Joachím Gómez de la Cortina, marqués de Morante (1808-1868), ex libris — Catalogus librorum doctoris D. Joach. Gomez de la Cortina, march. de Morante, qui in aedibus suis exstant (Madrid 1859), V, no. 9164 — Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, 21 February-3 March 1872, lot 1208 — unidentified owner, small square black morocco bookplate with black bicephalic displayed eagle on gold shield (20^th-century) — Johan Bertus Wouter Polak (1928–1992), engraved bookplate of wreath containing a white four-pointed star with dagger and herm crossed small square — J.L. Beijers, Utrecht, 11-13 May 1993, lot 50. acquisition: Purchased at Beijers via Marlborough Rare Books. references: UCLA 297; Renouard 123/8; Edit16 56157; USTC 858697