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 Venetae 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 Encyclopaedia 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 x 5-1/2 in.

31.  CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.  Epistolae 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 castigatae, ut in ijs menda, quae plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint.  PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum explicatione castigationum, quae in his epistolis pene innumerabilis factae 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]

Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331 numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor “would not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to confirm them” and a final leaf with colophon and anchor.  The Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on last leaf.  Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials.  Renouard, p. 120.

Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540, on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus.  The partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the sons of Aldus (apud Aldi filios) under