Valerius Maximus, Exempla quatuor et viginti nuper, Venice, Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1514, sixteenth-century Nuremberg pigskin over pasteboards

Valerius Maximus. Exempla quatuor et viginti nuper inuenta ante caput de ominibus. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1514

A reprint of the 1502 Aldine edition.

8vo (161 x 96 mm). Italic type with some Greek, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *⁸ A-Z⁸ aa-cc⁸: 216 leaves (*6 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Intermittent faint marginal dampstaining, a few dark stains, short closed tear to Z4.)

binding: Sixteenth-century Nuremberg pigskin over pasteboards (169 x 108 mm), tooled in blind, roll around border of Jacob's Ladder, Sacrifice of Isaac, and the Resurrection and vertical roll in center Lucretia, Venus, Prudentia (Haebler, I, 166, no. 6 & 3, assigned to Nuremberg workshop of C.H. (either Caspar Herman, d. 1588, or Christoph Hensler, fl. 1570s). (Extremities darkened and rubbed, repairs to corners and tail of spine, endleaves and pastedowns renewed, front joint starting.)

provenance: Unidentified owner(s), inscription washed off title-page; underlining and other marginalia — Edward Anderdon Reade (1807-1886), armorial ex libris. acquisition: Purchased from Antiquariat Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, 2006. references: UCLA 128; Renouard 69/9; Edit16 37496; USTC 861763