Valerius Maximus, Dictorum et factorum memorabilium, Lyon, [Baldazare de Gabiano], 1508, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century sheep

Valerius Maximus. Dictorum et factorum memorabilium. Libri novem. Lyon: [Baldazare de Gabiano], 31 July 1508 (October 1508?)

"A copy of one of the earlier counterfeit editions of c. 1503" (Shaw). Although the imprint is dated 31 July 1508 ("MDVIII. Die uero ultima Iulij"), the preliminary letter from Aldo to Johannes Lubranski is redated October 1508 ("Octobri Mese MDVIII").

8vo (148 x 88 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a¹² b-z⁸ A-C⁸: 212 leaves. (Text block cracked and toned, small loss to inner margin of title, a few heavy stains to a3, last leaf remargined.)

binding: Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century sheep (153 x 100 mm), brown marbled end papers, brown speckled edges. (Rubbed and worn, losses to tail of spine.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, running captions in ink at top of many pages — Librairie Raymond Clavreuil, Paris, booksellers' ticket — Swann Galleries New York, 12 November 2013, lot 13 (realized $1000). acquisition: Purchased at Swann via E.K. Schreiber. references: UCLA 1133 (not in collection); Renouard 309/26; FB 89684 / 89682; USTC 202952 / 155017; Baudrier, VII, p. 23; Gültlingen, I, p. 68: 41; Shaw 28