Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum romanarum ... liber... Lot 666

Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum romanarum ... liber de legibus. Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1557. Bound with: Sigonio, Carlo.Regum, consulum, dictatorum, ac censorum Romanorum Fasti. Modena, Antonio Gadaldini, 1550; Fulvio, Andrea.Antiquitates urbis.[Rome: Marcello Silber, c. 1527]. In 2nd (285 x 196 mm). First work: [4], LXXX, [2] papers. Large typographic mark of Aldo Manuzio on title page (small tear in margin of two papers); second work: [22] papers. Typographical mark to title page and colophon, part of text in red and black; third work:[10], XCVI [but 10]2, [6] papers.Title page in elaborate xylographic historiated frame, xylographic initials (blank paper missing in first fascicle, reinforcement to inner margin of last paper, some blooming). Eighteenth-century bindings in bazzana with threading and corner fleurons to the plates, friezes and title in gilt to the spine, within slipcase (spine rebacked). Ex libris byEarl of Jersey, Osterley Park; Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Middle Temple; William John Belt; H. Malherbe; Aldina collection of Stelio Valentini. Fine provenance specimen of this interesting miscellany of 3 works devoted to antiquity. Lot sold in 2018 at Sotheby's, The Sergio Rossetti Library.