Macrobe

MACROBII IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS EX CICERONIS VI. LIBRO DE REP. ERUDITISSIMA EXPLANATIO; EIUSDEM SATURNALIORUM LIBRI VII; CENSORINUS DE DIE NATALI, ADDITIS EX VETUSTO EXEMPLARI NONNULLIS, QUAE DESIDERABANTUR

      Publisher: Venetiis, in Aedibus aldi et Andreaz Asulani Soceri [Aldus, Aldine] - Date of Publication: 1528 - Binding: hard cover - Edition: - Condition: Very Good Binding - Description: Octavo bound in later full vellum with title and date stamped in black on the spine; all page edges are stained red; title page in a nice laid paper facsimile, 19th century?; collated against the printer's register and believed complete though there are two areas worth noting: 1) preliminary signature "*" has only 7 leaves, "*" is signed i-iiii, *5-7 are unsigned; the recto of *6 is last page of a contents of "Virgilii Versus a Macrobio" and concludes with "finis," verso is blank, *7 is blank, both recto and verso; 2) last gathering is only three leaves (two leaves signed "R" and "R ii," the verso of "R ii" is the colophon and register, last leaf unsigned, the recto is blank and the verso bears the Aldine anchor; binding is quite tight; early faint marginalia and underlining scattered throughout, [Publisher: Venetiis, in Aedibus aldi et Andreaz Asulani Soceri [Aldus, Aldine]]