Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought £1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8-1/2 × 5-1/4 in.
30. CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De medicina. SERENUS, QUINTUS. De medicina. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ soceri, 1528.
TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS. [Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venetæ ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est. _Fol. 1^a_: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 164^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on verso].
Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title, dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text (fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.
The _De Medicina_ of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his Encyclopædia entitled _Artes_, in five divisions. The first division, _De Agricultura_, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of _Artes_ was at the same time the first of _De Medicina_.
The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf 9 × 5-1/2 in.
31. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolæ ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.
TITLE: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintu_m_ fratrem, summa diligentia castigatæ, ut in ijs menda, quæ plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum explicatione castigationum, quæ in his epistolis pene innumerabilis factæ sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. _Fol. 344^a_, COLOPHON: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. MENSE AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]