Lot 1043
1043
RICCI, B. De imitatione ll. III. Venice, Aldus (P. Manutius), 1545. 88 lvs. W. woodcut Aldine anchor device on the ti. & on the v° of the last leaf. 16°. Cont. limp vellum. (Annot. on first free endpaper, upper hinge broken).
Second Aldine edition (according to Renouard) of this oratorical treatise dedicated to Alfonso d'Este whose tutor Ricci (1490-1569) became in 1549. - Renouard p. 131, 6; Adams R-490; Graesse VI, 109.€ 200
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