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243 - OVIDE/OVID. Cla. Ptolemaei Inerrantium Stellarum significati…
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OVIDE/OVID. Cla. Ptolemaei Inerrantium Stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum .... Sex priorum mensium digestio ex sex Ovidij Fastorum libris excerpta. P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum lib. VI. Tristium lib. V. De Ponto lib. IIII. in Ibin. Ad Liviam. Beautiful sixteenth-century binding decorated with geometric interlacing in the style of Gomar Estienne. Venetiis, in aedibus haeredum Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1533. Volume in-12 ( 164 x 105 mm). Bound in brown calf with a full composition of geometric interlacing with painted highlights (green, black and dark grey) with a central figure of a rectangle associated with a rhombus, the whole enriched with a network of curved fillets with azure irons, also with painted highlights in black and green. In the centre of the upper cover, the title of the work "OVIDII FAST". Solomon's knot painted in green in the centre of the lower cover. Spine decorated with aldine irons in gold. Finely chiselled gilt and painted edges depicting stylised flowers. Binding in the style of Gomar Estienne (see binding for Grolier de San Georgio. Montisferrati marchionum... 1521, Bnf RES-K-615). 21ff.b.c., [3ff blanks], 227ff, [1f. bl.], 4 ff.b.c. Headbands restored, spines rubbed, slight wear to boards, not attached. Endpapers renewed. Important Aldine edition of the third volume of the Complete Works of Ovid, printed by Paul Manuce, Frederico and Frncesco Torresano, heirs of Aldus Manutius. Very well printed in italic type, with Aldus Manutius' typographical mark on the title and colophon. A fully ruled copy. Contains the Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Significations of the Fixed Stars" (by Niccolo Leoniceno), followed by the mature and exiled works of Ovid and several pieces attributed to the Roman poet. Provenance: Sir James Stuart (1780 - 1853) Politician and famous bibliophile whose library of 2,538 titles was at the time "the largest private collection (...) to rival that of the Library of Parliament, which contained 1,955 titles" (Veilleux 1996: 173).
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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