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DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION
DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION

DE CONIURATIONE CATILINAE BY GAIUS SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS 1509 FIRST ALDINE EDITION

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[SALLUST (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)]. De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino. Eiusdem oratio contra M.T. Ciceronum. M.T. Ciceronis oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quator contra Lucium Catilinam. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catalinam orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus (Torresanus) Socer, April 1509).

First Aldine edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (154 x 97 mm.). Pp. [16], 279, [1]. Latin text in italic letter. Stunning later binding of grained olive morocco by J. Clarke, elaborately gilt ruled and tooled in period Italianesque style, spine gilt in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. Provenance: Edward Vernon Utterson's copy (c.1776-1856). Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the covers well-preserved. Interior with some later colouring to title, devices and initials. Small repair to lower corner of k8. Ink notes on flyleaf leaf.

Notes: The first Aldine edition of Sallust's two historical works, along with Cicero's speeches against Sallust and Catilina, Porcius Latro's also against Catilina, and some speeches taken from Sallust's now fragmentary Histories. The dedicatee is Bartolomeo d'Alviano, a mercenary commander of the Venetian forces, who had won a victory against the Imperial army in March 1508, only to be defeated the month after this work was printed, leading to a suspension of Aldus's printing activities (and indeed much Venetian trade) for three years. [Renouard 57/3; UCLA 103].
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