$1,200
Manuscript on Paper, Latin, ? France, 1651. De Institutione Rhetoricae Libri Tres . In gatherings of eights, 340 pages, with an original illustration as the title, like an engraved title, executed in gray washes with details picked out in brown ink, text with ornamental initials and other ornamental drawings throughout, on paper watermarked with an anchor in a circle surmounted by a star, bound in contemporary armorial gold-tooled parchment, a.e.g., becoming detached from text block; the illustrated title and the front board both include the emblem of two bears on their hind legs pawing at a tree; ink corrosion to some leaves. The text is divided into three parts. The first is on the principles of rhetoric, the second contains a group of orations dedicated to various people, and the third is concerned with neo-Latin poetry.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
