ULPIAN.

Commentarioli olynthiacas; philippicaque; Demostenis orationes. Ennarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis. Arpocrationis dictionarium decem Rhetorum (in Greek).

      Venice, In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June 1527. Folio. Early 18th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with double gilt fillets on sides, gilt inner borders, g.e. With woodcut printer's device on title, of Aldus' dolphin around an anchor with the legend "AL" and "DUS" on either side, and variant device on verso of last blank, of similar dolphin and anchor-device, but with the legend "ALDUS" and the initials "M.R." on either side. 119, (1 blank) lvs. Second Aldus-edition of Ulpian's comments on the speeches of Demostenes, together with Harpocration's "Lexicon of the Ten Orators", first published in a slightly smaller size by Aldus in 1503. Here with a short preface by Francesco d'Asola. The book is beautifully printed in a small Greek type with 54 lines to a page and a heading of a few words printed in the same type. Fine large paper copy in red morocco.- (Spine professionally restored). Renouard 104, 4; Adams H 69; STC Italian 704; Palau 106; Ahmanson-Murphy Coll. 245; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre 222.