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CAESAR, Caius Julius

Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello ciuili Pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I.

Venice
Aldus Manutius the Elder
April [-December] 1513

€1.400 - €2.400

8vo: [17 (of 20]-296 ff. Two colophons (kk8v and oo8r) with woodcut marks. 5 full-page woodcuts (but, as often, missing the map of Gaul). Printed in italics. Capital spaces with guide-letters. (missing A2-3 [= text + map] and A7 [errata]; bl. kk7 present; top margin dampstained with occasional mouldy traces or loss of some letters, title soiled and strengthened at top, occasional staining, tear in fore-edge margin f. 112). Late-18th-c. half leather, gilt flat spine with morocco labels, gilt gauffered edges (rubbed, gilding fading). In all a good copy

First Aldine Caesar, with Index by Raimundo Marliano. Ref. Edit16 8147. - Renouard 60:1. - Ahmanson-Murphy 117. - Adams C-26. Prov. A few old marginal annotations (some cropped). Small collector's stamp on title

Humanism Incunabula Early printing