Orationes lectissimae XVI . — Venice 1516

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Orationes lectissimae XVI . — Venice, in aed. Aldi, et Andreae soc., April 1516.

Editio princeps

8vo (155 x 90 mm). *⁸ aα-zψ, &ω, AΑ-PΟ⁸: (8) leaves (last blank), 311 leaves, (1) leaf (Aldus’ device). Printed in Greek. Red printing on aα₁ and aα₇. Contemporary brown calf with new spine, rubbed; rests of clasps remaining.

Provenance: German woodcut exlibris on paste-down, name on title (see photo). Praefatio by Marcus Musurus.

Renouard I, pp. 75ff.; Adams G 1157; Hoffmann II, 174.