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GELLIUS, Aulus

Noctes Atticae [and: Annotationes Petri Mosellani]
Cologne
Johann Soter
1526, June
€300 - €400

8vo: 2 parts, [40]-420-[44] pp., [95, 1 bl.] ff. Title within elaborate woodcut border (with nude figures). Woodcut mark on Ii8v. Historiated woodcut initials. Printed in italics. Old blind-stamped leather over wood, vellum-covered spine titled in ink, metal catches, fore-edge titled (rubbed, front upper corner and lower fore-edge def., clasps gone). Very good copy

Cologne octavo ed. by the Leipzig humanist Mosellanus (d. 1524) of Gellius' popular commonplace book, with notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today. Ref. VD16 G-1039. - Adams G-349. Prov. A number of contemp. annotations in tiny handwriting. Old ownership entries and notes at top of title and on front endpaper and flyleaf