Gellius (Aulus):

Noctes Atticae.

      8vo, [153 x 100mm / 6" x 4"], [xxxxviii], 729, [35]pp, full elaborately blind-tooled vellum dated 1541 on upper cover, over bevelled oak boards, raised bands. Head of spine chipped but headband still present; both clasps missing; edges very worn and much exposed to boards; vellum rubbed and stained; small almost oval hole in vellum on upper cover, about 10-15 mm; paper fault foremargin G7 with no loss of text; paper fault M1 with no loss of text; Ss6 to end very slighty wormed with loss of a letter or so; some old and faint dampstaining to front and rear of text; some underlining and marginal notes in Greek and Latin in earlyish hands. An interesting but not very good copy. Compiled from a commonplace book the work, first published in Rome in 1469, contains notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history, etc., etc., as well as excerpts from the works of the ancients.