Caesar, Commentarii, Venice, Aldus, 1513, modern crushed morocco, Clark copy

Caesar, Gaius Julius. Hoc volumine continentur haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, divisae in parteis treis, secundum C. Caesaris commentarios. Nomina locorum, urbiumq. et populorum Galliae, ut olim dicebantur Latine, et nunc dicuntur Gallice, secundum ordinem alphabeti… (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, April 1513)

The first Aldine edition, and the first to be edited by Giovanni Giocondo.

8vo (159 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-B⁸ C⁴ a-z⁸ aa-oo⁸: 316 leaves (kk7 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, kk8 and final verso, double-page woodcut map of Gaul with early coloring, five woodcut illustrations. (Some staining to early leaves.)

binding: Early twentieth-century crushed brown morocco (169 x 116 mm), the letter A within a six-pointed star on upper cover, and the letter M on lower cover. (Extremities a trifle rubbed.)

provenance: Charles W. Clark (The Library of Charles W. Clark, San Francisco, 1914, I, p.24). acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1962. references: UCLA 117; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 113; Edit16 8147; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 96; Renouard 60/1