FIRMIN-DIDOT, Ambroise. Alde Manuce et l’hellénisme a Venise. Paris: Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1875. 8° (224 x 142mm). Half-title, facsimile frontispiece portrait, and 4 facsimile plates, including one double-page. 19th-century morocco-backed cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (lightly rubbed). Provenance: ‘JD Hobson 1941 from the Yates Thompson sale’ (inscription on free endpaper, followed by a list of bindings). FIRST EDITION.
With Domenico Maria Manni’s Vita di Aldo Pio Manuzio (Venice, 1759), engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved vignette on title, uncut in contemporary limp boards; and James Toovey’s [Bibliotheca Aldiana] Catalogue of an extensive and extraordinary Assemblage of the Productions of the Aldine Press, from its first Establishment at Venice (London, 1880), uncut in contemporary morocco-backed boards, with the bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley.
FIRMIN-DIDOT, Ambroise. Alde Manuce et l’hellénisme a Venise. Paris: Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1875. 8° (224 x 142mm). Half-title, facsimile frontispiece portrait, and 4 facsimile plates, including one double-page. 19th-century morocco-backed cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut (lightly rubbed). Provenance: ‘JD Hobson 1941 from the Yates Thompson sale’ (inscription on free endpaper, followed by a list of bindings). FIRST EDITION.
With Domenico Maria Manni’s Vita di Aldo Pio Manuzio (Venice, 1759), engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved vignette on title, uncut in contemporary limp boards; and James Toovey’s [Bibliotheca Aldiana] Catalogue of an extensive and extraordinary Assemblage of the Productions of the Aldine Press, from its first Establishment at Venice (London, 1880), uncut in contemporary morocco-backed boards, with the bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley.
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