‎CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.‎
‎Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium libri IIII. incerto auctore. Ciceronis De inventione libri II. Topica ad Trebatium, Oratoriæ partitiones. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.‎

‎Venice, Aldus, 1559. 8vo. Bound in a recent full morocco binding with four raised bands to spine. Title page with tears and mounted. Waterstain to inner margin throughout, otherwise clean. Few contemporary underlinings in text. With the woodcut Aldine printer's device to title page. 184 leaves (A-Z8). ‎

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‎The uncommon reprint of the first part of Paulus Manutius' 1554 edition of Cicero's rhetorical works (Renouard 1554.12), containing three of his most important rhetorical treatises, De Inventione, Topica and Oratoriae Partitiones, as well as the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. Cicero's rhetorical works, Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione in particular, played an important role in teaching of rhetoric throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Paulus Manutius was one of the most prominent Ciceronian scholars of his time, and his editions, containing numerous original textual corrections a valuable contribution to Ciceronian scholarship. Renouard 1559.6‎