[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Italian trans. of Cicero. Venice: 1528. Finely bound in the style of Roger Payne

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. DE MARCO TULLIO CICERONE. DE GLI UFFICI, DELLA AMICITIA, DELLA VECCHIEZZA, LE PARADOSSE Tradotte per un Nobile Vinitiano [Federico Vendramino]... (Venice: Bernardino di Vitale, Vinitiano). March 14, 1528. Sm. 4to. (304)pp., with the final blank, as well as the blank leaf in the first gathering[*4], complete. Finely bound in 18th century red crushed morocco, gilt triple lines along the edges of the covers and spine ornately gilt in six compartments. The binding is very much in the style of Roger Payne. Title lightly soiled. Some occasional text annotations in an early hand. Engraved armorial bookplate of Irishman Wilmot Vaughan 4th Viscount Lisburne (1730-1800). A.e.g. A fine copy in a beautiful binding.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
First Italian translation of this selection of philosophical works by Cicero. Adams C1745. BL Italian STC p. 177.

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