Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti

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Aldus, Venice. 1515. First edition, in second printing, bearing the correct term ”duernionem” in the register on the recto of the last sheet. 8vo (155 x 88 mm). Latin and Greece text. Roman, Greek, and italic types. 32 unnumbered sheets, 289 unnumbered sheets that make up the corpus of the work, finally 51 non-figures, containing the titles of the chapters and the explanation of the Greek passages. Colophon: Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Septembri MDXV. Aldine woodcut device to title and verso of colophon. The two large indices by Egnatius – the first with the titles of the chapters, the second with the explanation of the passages of the text reported in Greek. Bound in later full brown calf, gilt inner dentelles, decorative marbled endpapers faded spine in six compartments, red edges. Some staining in upper margin first about 50 leaves and last 10 leaves. Old signature on title and last leaf verso. Bookplate of C. Vilh. Jacobowsky, mounted cut from antiquarian catalogue on inside of upper board. (Renouard 73:9).