Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1558, contemporary calf for Waldbott von Bassenheim

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quinctum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1558

8vo (157 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-XX⁸: 352 leaves. (Title dustsoiled, pale marginal dampstaining at end.)

binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (170 x 114 mm), roll-tooled border, front cover stamped I.W.V.B at top. (Lacking catches and clasps, somewhat worn, portion of leather missing from bottom of front cover, vertical crack in both wooden boards.)

provenance: Johann Waldbott von Bassenheim (1517-1589), initials IWVB on binding — Schloss Bassenheim (ink stamp on front flyleaf) — Eugene Du Bois (bookplate) — Swann Galleries, 12 November 2013, lot 4. acquisition: Purchased from preceding sale via E.K. Schreiber. references: UCLA 572; Edit16 12345; Renouard 174/9