[BINDING] - CICERONE, Marco Tullio (106 A.C.-43 A.C.) - Epistolarum volumen primum, quod est librorum XVI. Strasbourg: Iosias Rihelius, 1579. Copy in contemporary blindstamped pigskin of this edition of Cicero's classic work containing the letters addressed by the author to various public figures and about his private life. 8vo (171 x 107mm). Title with printer's device representing the personification of the Law, woodcut initials (lacking i2-i6, title repaired at lower corner, some slight browning and foxing, leaves 2d1-2d2 with some loss). Contemporary blindstamped calf dated 1580 with I. D. N. monogram and portrait of man in elegant clothes with sword within border on front cover and second portrait on the back (modern guards, joints reinforced, small woodholes); preserved in an elegant box. Provenance: Provenance: some early underlining and a few annotations.

Estimate € 200 - 300

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