BOOK, Orations of Cicero, 1544.

Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Orationes tres, antequam iret in exilium. (Ed. Johann Sturm.)

Paris, Prigent Calvarin, 1544. 4to. 22 x 15,5 cm. 20 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title.

19th-century half morocco, rubbed, joints worn, front hinge weak and free endpaper almost loose. Recent bookplate (Bengt Ollfors). Title somewhat darkened and with insignificant corner loss, a few unobtrusive annotations.

Rare school edition of three Ciceronian Orations, with an "argumentum" (i.e. statement of the subject, or contents) introducing each oration, by Johannes Sturm (1507-1589), an eminent classicist and educator in Strassburg.

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