FIRST EDITION / FIRST STATE of Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Libri Undeviginti [Attic Nights, Noctes Atticae]

by Gellies, Aulus / Egnazio, Giovanni Battista / Engstrom, Alfred G

First Edition / First State

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Book Description

Venetiis: Aldus - in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, 1515. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Printed Septembri 1515. Printer's device on on the title page and verso of last leaf. Edited by Ioannes Baptista Egnatius. "Duerniorem" on leaf V4r, includes indices, Latin and Greek on opposite pages, printed in clear Italic type. Signatures: AA-DD, with DD8 blank, A-V. Errors in foliation: leaf 222, 226, 228, 230, 232, 233, 235, 237, and 239 - misnumbered as 122, 126, 128, 130, 132, 133, 135, 137 and 139. [32 leaves], 289 leaves, [51 leaves]. Bound in vellum, marbled endpapers, lacks leather spine label for title, but does have lower leather spine label (chipped) reading "ALD. 1515", occasional marginalia. 2 ARMORIAL BOOKPLATES, for LORD LOVAINE and WILLIAM LITTLETON. Binding and hinges tight. This is the author's only work, taking it's name from the long winter nights he spent in Attica, where he began this work. The "Attic Nights" is valuable for the insights it offers into the nature of the society at that time, and for its excerpts from works of lost ancient authors.. First Edition / First State. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

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