1503 Early Giunta Edtn (Florence)
SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS - OPERA
(Historic pocket-classic: De Coniuratione Catilinae & De Bello Iugurthino)
A beautifully characterful early Giunta Sallust — one of the most desirable “pocket classics” of the Italian Renaissance, printed in Florence in 1503. This edition is prized for its learned humanist preliminaries (including Pietro Crinito’s Vita Sallustii and related prefatory material) and its elegant italic typography intended for study and active reading.
This copy is especially attractive in hand: early limp vellum with yapp edges and a ruled frame, a manuscript spine title, and fine contemporary/early hand-rubrication throughout. Several initials are ornamented in red/blue/green, and at least one opening initial is heightened with real gold. There are occasional early reader’s marks and marginal notes (including Greek), giving the volume the feel of a genuine Renaissance scholar’s book rather than a sterile “shelf copy”.
A charming old Italian bibliographic note on the front blank praises the book as a “first Florentine edition” and comments on its rarity in even the most complete collections (photographed).
By Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Author Bio: Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86–35 BC), Roman politician and historian closely associated with Julius Caesar, authored Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, works that helped inaugurate a form of moral historiography characterised by concise style, ethical judgement and close attention to the mechanisms of power. During the Renaissance, Sallust was regarded as an indispensable model of historical Latin and political analysis.
Synopsis: Sallust’s two great historical monographs — De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Iugurthino — are sharp, moralising studies of political corruption, ambition and the collapse of civic virtue in the late Roman Republic. Written in a compressed, vivid style that made Sallust a cornerstone of Renaissance education, they present Catiline’s conspiracy and the Jugurthine War not simply as events, but as case studies in power, faction, greed and the mechanisms by which states decay from within.
Binding: Vellum, Small/Crown octavo (8vo 5 3⁄8 × 8 in 137 × 203 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: a⁶ b–i⁸ k¹⁰ = 82 leaves (standard collation for this edition). Copy includes the “Hic erit, ut perhibent…” title-leaf and the Giunta colophon dated “sexto Kalendas Februarias” 1503; with both Catilina and Iugurthinum present.
Language: Latin
Published By: Filippo (Philippus) Giunta, Florence
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Internally: light age toning with scattered spotting and occasional small marks; a few early annotations/underlinings (including Greek) consistent with historical reading use. Decorative rubrication and gilt initial(s) remain bright and attractive. Colophon leaf present and legible. A pleasing, displayable copy with strong “Renaissance study book” character.
Binding:
Softcover / limp vellum (early), octavo (8vo; approx. 159 × 100 mm). Early limp vellum binding with yapp edges; ruled frame to covers and small central ornament; manuscript title to spine. Vellum shows expected age-soiling, edge wear and small losses at corners; joints/hinges show age but the binding remains serviceable.
Language:
Latin (with some Greek in the preliminaries and/or marginalia).
References:
Renouard; Edit16; USTC; standard collation a⁶ b–i⁸ k¹⁰ (82 leaves)..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002730
1503 Early Giunta Edtn (Florence)
SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS - OPERA
(Historic pocket-classic: De Coniuratione Catilinae & De Bello Iugurthino)
A beautifully characterful early Giunta Sallust — one of the most desirable “pocket classics” of the Italian Renaissance, printed in Florence in 1503. This edition is prized for its learned humanist preliminaries (including Pietro Crinito’s Vita Sallustii and related prefatory material) and its elegant italic typography intended for study and active reading.
This copy is especially attractive in hand: early limp vellum with yapp edges and a ruled frame, a manuscript spine title, and fine contemporary/early hand-rubrication throughout. Several initials are ornamented in red/blue/green, and at least one opening initial is heightened with real gold. There are occasional early reader’s marks and marginal notes (including Greek), giving the volume the feel of a genuine Renaissance scholar’s book rather than a sterile “shelf copy”.
A charming old Italian bibliographic note on the front blank praises the book as a “first Florentine edition” and comments on its rarity in even the most complete collections (photographed).
By Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Author Bio: Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86–35 BC), Roman politician and historian closely associated with Julius Caesar, authored Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, works that helped inaugurate a form of moral historiography characterised by concise style, ethical judgement and close attention to the mechanisms of power. During the Renaissance, Sallust was regarded as an indispensable model of historical Latin and political analysis.
Synopsis: Sallust’s two great historical monographs — De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Iugurthino — are sharp, moralising studies of political corruption, ambition and the collapse of civic virtue in the late Roman Republic. Written in a compressed, vivid style that made Sallust a cornerstone of Renaissance education, they present Catiline’s conspiracy and the Jugurthine War not simply as events, but as case studies in power, faction, greed and the mechanisms by which states decay from within.
Binding: Vellum, Small/Crown octavo (8vo 5 3⁄8 × 8 in 137 × 203 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Collation: a⁶ b–i⁸ k¹⁰ = 82 leaves (standard collation for this edition). Copy includes the “Hic erit, ut perhibent…” title-leaf and the Giunta colophon dated “sexto Kalendas Februarias” 1503; with both Catilina and Iugurthinum present.
Language: Latin
Published By: Filippo (Philippus) Giunta, Florence
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Internally: light age toning with scattered spotting and occasional small marks; a few early annotations/underlinings (including Greek) consistent with historical reading use. Decorative rubrication and gilt initial(s) remain bright and attractive. Colophon leaf present and legible. A pleasing, displayable copy with strong “Renaissance study book” character.
Binding:
Softcover / limp vellum (early), octavo (8vo; approx. 159 × 100 mm). Early limp vellum binding with yapp edges; ruled frame to covers and small central ornament; manuscript title to spine. Vellum shows expected age-soiling, edge wear and small losses at corners; joints/hinges show age but the binding remains serviceable.
Language:
Latin (with some Greek in the preliminaries and/or marginalia).
References:
Renouard; Edit16; USTC; standard collation a⁶ b–i⁸ k¹⁰ (82 leaves)..
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
SKU: BTETM0002730
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