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Marcus Tullius CICERON

Opera philosophica ciceronis

Venundantur ab Ioanne Paruo (Jehan Petit) & Iodoco Badio (Josse Bade), [Paris] 1511, In Folio, (8) ff. clxxii. Sig : ã? ??, Aa-Zz?, AA? BB¹?, relié.

First edition of the philosophical works of Cicero who will know by the same publishers, several editions, including in 1531. Title page in red and black, adorned with an architectural framework. Brand printer at the center representing workers operating a press. Beautiful and large initials Renaissance head of each book. Brunet (II, 6) reports that it is the text of the edition of Milan in 1499 which was reproduced in Paris. Not referenced in Adams. Publication date on the back of the title page and the last page, the colophon.
Edition shared Josse Badius and Jehan Petit; in most of the other editions, it is the mark of the printer Jehan Petit found, but not in this copy when in thumbnail representing a print, it says in red letters Presso Ascensiansi.
Bound in full sheepskin brown ^XVIII, pastiche of a French Renaissance-bound frames; succession of box nets and friezes leading to a central rectangle. Back with nerves decorated with cold stars seeding. Good condition overall. Some spots. An accident in the upper jaw in the tail missing. Dubbed title page margins filled with shortages, lower corner doubled the next sheet, worm working in lower margin affecting the first six layers without damage to the text, handwritten notes ^XVI in conjunction with certain layers. Book particularly fresh.

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