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Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Cum annotationibus D. ErasmiFolio. [4], LXXXIX leaves; [10], 124 pages. Late sixteenth (?) century leather; light scuffing, hinges cracked but cords holding tightly; insect damage to text block with loss of text throughout; margins in Orosius trimmed close, affecting title image. First printing of Erasmus' critical edition of Quintus Curtius. This first century Roman biography of Alexander the Great was an early Renaissance bestseller, with editions from at least a dozen printers throughout Europe by 1517. Erasmus brought it as reading material on a voyage to England in 1517, and finding the text incomplete and corrupt, he prepared his own critical edition. This was first published by his friend Strasbourg printer Matthias Schürer in 1518. Erasmus' version proved so popular that five more printers had issued their own editions of his text by 1541; these in turn were reprinted a total of five more times by 1575. This first edition is… Read More

Two sheets, approximately 8 x 11 inches each, one plain laid paper (Bufalo), the other with the watermark of Amalfi papermaker F. Lucibello and two embossed tax stamps of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Rinoceronte). The two images are from Domenico Gazzadi and Antonio Baschieri, Zoologia morale esposta in cento venti discorsi, published in Florence by Vincenzo Batelli, 1843-46. The buffalo appears to be a letter to a family loved one, while the rhinoceros is part of a multi-page document.