Cicero, De officiis, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1559, later mottled calf

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Ciceronis De officiis libri III. Cato maior, uel De senectute. Laelius, vel de amicitia: Paradoxa Stoicorum sex. Somnium Scipionis, ex libro sexto de republica. Cum annotationibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: (Paolo Manuzio), 1559

8vo (148 x 104 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-S⁸ T⁴: 148 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (N5 torn without loss.)

binding: Later mottled calf (155 x 112 mm), spine gilt in compartments. (Binding slightly rubbed, gilding faded.)

provenance: John Pindar, inscription on flyleaf. acquisition: Purchased from Thulins Antikvariat, Stockholm, 1969. references: UCLA 584; Edit16 12348; Renouard 177/6