ID 627509
Lot 19 | De asse
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 4 000
First Aldine edition of an important work on ancient coinage. "Jean Grolier personally urged the Aldine press to publish this work on Roman coinage by his friend Guillaume Budé … There was local resistance to the work itself, which had first been published in Paris in 1515. Italian scholars could not accept the fact that a Frenchman had successfully treated the as, an important element of classical Roman coinage" (Clemons and Fletcher). Although originally conceived as a luxury edition in royal folio, the final product was this broad-margined quarto. Adams B-3101; Ahmanson-Murphy 212; Renouard 94.3; Clemons and Fletcher 75.
Quarto (205 x 134mm). Greek and Roman types. Woodcut Aldine devices on title and verso of final leaf (some dampstains, a few small spots). Old stiff vellum, title in ink on spine. Provenance: early marginalia – Herbert Claibourne Pell (bookplate).
| Artist: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Artist: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
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