PONTANUS, Johannes Jovianus (1426-1503).   Opera. Venice: Aldus, 1513. 12mo. Later calf gilt, edges stained red.  

8vo (160 x 95 mm). 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf. (Lacking ii8, blank, 16th century calf, wide gilt border, windhead, star, wolf and flower cornerpieces, smooth spine elaborately gilt with flower and drawer-handle tooling gilt, brown and olive lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red, decorative paper pastedowns and endleaves. Provenance: Heinrich Schoningh (Munster booklabel).

The second Aldine edition, closely following the first edition of 1505.   Adams P-1858; Renouard 63:7.

[Bound with:]

PONTANUS.   Amorum Libri II, De amore conjugalis III... Venice: Aldus, 1518.  

6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf, with blanks s8 and x5. (Minor marginal worming to a few leaves at end, a few old marginal repairs to final leaf, rust-hole affecting one leaf.)

FIRST (and only) ALDINE EDITION of the second volume of Pontanus' Latin verse.   The first volume was printed in 1505. Adams P-1864; Renouard 85:10.  


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