CICERO, OPERA, PARIS, 1527, CONTEMPORARY GERMAN STAMPED CALF

2 parts in one volume, folio (339 x 226mm.), title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on title-page, criblé woodcut initials, a few early annotations, contemporary German stamped calf over wooden boards with owl and double-headed eagle stamps (Wedinghausen, Westphalia, EBDB w000295), metal shoes, two clasps, manuscript pastedowns (from a legal text, probably France, late thirteenth century), lacking both straps, binding slightly rubbed, lacking 2 shoes

"P. Tengnagel και των φιλων", late sixteenth-century inscription on flyleaf, i.e. Philipp Tengnagel, jurist in Speyer, his library (and his brother Gregor's) acquired by the Fürstenbergs of Donaueschingen; ES (Egon-Saal, Donaueschingen), purple ink stamp at end

BP16 105347 & 105348; Renouard, Badius Ascensius II 298 & 308

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A LARGE CRISP COPY in a contemporary German binding; the Premonstratensian monastery at Wedinghausen plausibly had its own bindery. This volume contains two of the four parts of the complete works of Cicero issued by Ascensius in 1527-1528.