Book production - Printing - Italy, 1495-1515 - Venice - Aldo Manuzio

Lot Comprises:

A Privilege Granted to Aldus Manutius Romanus for the Benefit of Literary Affairs, Portland, OR, [n.d.], 8vo., publisher's ecru cloth, bookplates of Robert Frederick Lane, University of Chicago, Library School, and Frederic Melcher of New York

Armand Baschet, ed., Aldo Manuzio, Lettres et documents, 1495‐1515, Venice, Ex Ædibus Antonellianis, 1867, 4to., original paper wrappers, no. 25 of 160 numbered copies

Martin Davies, Aldus Manutius, Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice, London, British Library, 1995, 4to., publisher's printed wrapper

Harry George Fletcher III, New Aldine Studies: Documentary Essays on the Life and Work of Aldus Manutius, San Francisco, Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1988, 4to., publisher's blue cloth (2 copies)

Roberti Ridolfi, ed., Scritti sopra Aldo Manuzio [previously published, in part, in La Bibliofilia, vol. 52, 1950], Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1955, fol., red cloth

Theodore Low De Vinne, The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius, New York, 1983, 4to. (reprint of article in Scribner's Monthly, October 1881), publisher's half white cloth over red boards, slipcase

Carlo Dionisotti, Aldo Manuzio, Umanista e editore (Documenti sulle arti del libro, 18), Milan, Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1995, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket

Ambroise Firmin‐Didot, Alde Manuce et l'Hellénisme à Venise, Paris, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1875, 4to., 20C purple cloth, deckled edges

Ambroise Firmin‐Didot, Les Alde Manuce (extract from Nouvelle Biographie Générale, ca. 1880), 4to., green paper wrapper

Paul F. Grendler, Aldus Manutius, Humanist, Teacher, and Printer [address delivered at the John Carter Brown Library, November 9, 1984, at the opening of the exhibition "The Recovery of the Classics and the Growth of Learning in the West"], Providence, John Carter Brown Library, 1984, 8vo., publisher's grey printed wrappers

Martin Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1979, 4to.

Ester Pastorello, L'Epistolario manuziano, inventario cronologico‐ analitico, 1483‐1597, Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1957, 4to., green cloth

Ester Pastorello, Inedita Manutiana, 1502‐1597, Appendice all'Inventario, Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1960, 4to., green cloth

Edward Robertson, Aldus Manutius, The Scholar Printer, 1450‐1515 (off‐print, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 33, 1950), 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers, bookplate of John B. Graybill

Aldus Manutius: The Greek Classics [Aldus's prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, edited and translated by Nigel Guy Wilson] (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 70), Cambridge, MA & London, Harvard University Press, 2016, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

[Kurt H. Volk], Aldus Manutius, MCDLXXXXV‐MDXV (Number four of a series of mailing pieces portraying master typographers of the ages), [n.p.], Volk, 1945, large fol., folio sheet folded twice, Aldine device on upper cover

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