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AUSONIUS (DECIMUS MAGNUS) [Opera], Venice, Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1517
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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
Footnotes
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.