Ulpianus, Commentarii in orationes Demosthenis, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1503, Parisian straight-grained dark blue morocco

Ulpianus. Oulpianou retoros Prolegomena eis te tous olunthiakous, kai philippikous Demosthenous logous … Ulpiani Commentarioli in olynthiacas, philippicasque; Demosthenis orationes. Enarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis [Latin and Greek]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, October 1503

First Aldine edition of the Greek commentaries and scholia on Demosthenes.

Small folio (258 x 164 mm) Greek type with some roman, 46 lines plus headline. collation: AA-PP⁸ QQ¹⁰ RR-VV⁸ XX¹⁰: 172 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Faint fingersoiling.)

binding: Parisian straight-grained dark blue morocco (266 x 178 mm), signed by F(rançois) Bozerian Jeune (active 1802– 1818), gilt floral border, spine richly gilt with floral tools on pointillé ground, dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, pink silk bookmark. (Extremities lightly rubbed, with a few small scrapes to lower cover.)

provenance: Edward Clive Herbert, 2^nd Earl Powis (1785–1848) — "A Catalogue of books printed by Aldus Manutius and his successors 1495–1597 in the possession of Lord Viscount Clive London 1825" (London, British Library, Add Ms 54176, f.10: "Ulpiani Comm. In Demosthenem Fol") — George Herbert, 4^th Earl Powis (1862–1952); his sale, Sotheby's London, 20-22 March 1923, lot 412 — Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of a most important collection of publications of the Aldine Press, 1494- 1595, with illustrations (London 1929), p. 22; Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 468: A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics (London 1933), item 220 (£25) — Sir Robert Henry Abdy, 5^th Bt. (1896–1976) — Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin, Paris, 10-11 June 1975, lot 327 (FF 2800). acquisition: Purchased at Ader Picard Tajan via Berès. references: UCLA 77; Renouard 41/6; Edit16 55857; USTC 861591