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1:30 AM PT - Apr 2nd, 2009

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Lot 297
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Cicero Rhetorica vetus et noua 1481/2

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetorica vetus et noua,
commentary by Marcus Fabius Victorinus, 2 parts in 1, 177 ff. (of 178, lacking blank A1), 56 lines of commentary surounding text, Roman type, capital spaces, occasional early ink inscriptions to recto of title and occasional marginalia (some trimmed at outer edge), l1 recto, l7 verso and l8 recto ink stained, k3 verso and K4 recto spotted, occasional staining, mostly marginal, heavier and within text on final 3 sigs., a few pin-point wormholes, affecting a few letters, but with no loss of sense of text, 17th century calf, spine richly gilt, rather worn, but holding firm, [BMC V, 322; Goff C-647; Hain 5076], folio, [Venice], [Baptista de Tortis], [1481/2].

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