Cicero, Le epistole famigliari, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1563, modern red morocco

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Le epistole famigliari di Cicerone. Tradotte di nuouo, e quasi in infiniti luoghi corrette da Aldo Manutio. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1566 [title of the 1563 edition, see below]

8vo (139 x 93 mm). Italic type, 29 lines. Collation: A-Z⁸ Aa-ZZ⁸: 368 leaves, last leaf blank (title-page replaced by the title from the 1563 edition (UCLA 686), otherwise foliated as in the 1566 edition). (Small hole on title, title-page almost detached, a few minor marginal repairs, washed resulting in occasional staining.)

Binding: Nineteenth-century red morocco (95 x 145 mm), gilt edges. (A few trifling scuffs.)

Provenance: A few leaves with ink marginalia at end, faint early owner’s name on title — Charles van der Elst (1904-1982, President of La Société Royale des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique), bookplate. Acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Giraud-Badin, Paris, 2000. References: UCLA 765; Edit16 12395; Renouard 201/14