BINDINGS -- CICERO. Opera omnia quæ exstant. Ex sola fere Codd. Mss. fide emend. studio atq. industria J. Gulielmii & J. Gruteri. Hamburg, Ex bibliopolio Frobeniano, 1618-19. 5 parts in 2 vols. (16), 34, (2), 255, 590; (8), 365, (3), 417, 461 pp. W. 2 engr. ti. containing i.a. a view on Hamburg and a small portr. of the author. Fol. Beautiful 19th-century Spanish green mor. binds., sides paneled with double gilt fillet, at the center gilt coat of arms of the Marquis de Morante, with his motto "Gomez de la Cortina et amicorum fallitur hora legendo", spine with four raised bands and gilt-lettered title, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (Old name entries on first ti. (partly scratched out), some marg. stains, 1 leaf w. tear, browned/foxed as usual).
This set comes from the vast library of a great Spanish book collector, the Marquis Joachim Gomez de la Cortina (1808-1868), rector of the University of Madrid and Senator in Spain. He had most (if not all) of his books rebound with his arms. - Schweiger II, 106.€ 380