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ALDINE PRESS. LIVIUS, TITUS. [Decades, with the Epitome of Florus and the Histories of Polybius], 1518-33, 5 vols., 155 x 93 mm. (6 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.), late eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboard, smooth spines gold-tooled and -lettered in compartments, edges gilt and gauffred at head and tail of spines, modern red morocco folding box, vol. 1 lacking first 68 leaves (general title and preliminary matter preceding volume title), vol. 2 lacking 47 ll. Index and blank leaf 6/8 (quires 1-68) vol. 3 lacking 44 leaves preliminary text (quires 1, 22, 33, 44, 55 and 66), one or two short marginal tears or repairs, light marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, some red pencil underlining in vol. 4 -- PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS. Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium, January 1519, 146 x 94 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 11/16 in.), nineteenth-century maroon morocco, gilt anchor device on covers, spine gilt-lettered, g.e., extremities slightly rubbed, slight soiling to first and last leaves, a few minor marginal stains, some dampstaining in last 2 quires , second Aldine edition, with blank leaves k2 and K2; both Venice: in aedibus Aldus et Andreae soceri, together 6 vols., 8vo , italic type and some Greek, printer's woodcut device on titles and final leaves of each volume, spaces for initials with guide letters. Adams L-1322-23, S-1672; Renouard Alde 83.7, 86.5, 89.6, 90.1 & 108.4 (Livius), 88.12 (Statius). (6)