Cicero, Officiorum libri tres, Venice, 1570, later English calf

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Officiorum libri tres. Cato maior, uel De senectute. Laelius, uel De amicitia. Paradoxa stoicorum sex. Somnium scipionis, ex libro VI de Reg. Additae sunt in extremo opere uarie lictiones e libris manuscr. et ex ingenio. Cum annotationibus Dionysii Lambini. Venice: Biblioteca Aldina, 1570

8vo (142 x 92 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-T⁸ V⁴: 156 leaves (lacking final leaf with Aldine device only, supplied in manuscript facsimile). (Title soiled and with soft vertical crease, some browning throughout.)

binding: Later English mottled calf (146 x 104 mm), spine gilt. (Lacking one spine label, worn at extremities.)

provenance: J. Caufield (1754 signature on title, and other signatures on endleaves) — George Davis, Charles Nathan (signatures on pastedown). acquisition: Purchased from Bonnefoi Livres Anciens, Paris, 2016. references: UCLA 1075; Cataldi Palau 229; Edit16 12419; Renouard 290/11