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AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS) Opera, colophon Venice, Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1517 image 1
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AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS)
[Opera], Venice, Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1517

7 – 20 June 2024, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS)

[Opera], Aldine device on title and final leaf, capital spaces with guide-letters, 10-line manuscript epigram in Greek text on blank at end, a few lines underlined in red, light arc of damp-staining in lower margin of opening half of text (mostly marginal), later vellum, ink lettering on spine [Ahmanson-Murphy 158; Renouard 80:7; Adams A2278], 8vo, [colophon:] Venice, Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1517

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First Aldine edition of the works of Ausonius (c.310-394), Gallo-Roman poet and rhetorician.

Provenance: "Ex Legato... D. Vicentii Geno", ink ownership inscription on title.

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