h the name _Aldus_, instead of the _Aldi filii_ and the
ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present
volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the
name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on
the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.

The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present
Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended
(fol. 25) this subscription: _Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal.
Iunii Anno Domini MCXLIIII_. The revival of the study of the Greek
mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable
translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino
(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best.
In the same year Paulus printed _Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico
Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis
illustrata_.

Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf 8-3/4 x
6-1/2 in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of
Sir John Hayford Thorold.

34. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri. Venetiis, in
aedibus Manutianis, 1572.

TITLE: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI. QVI.
EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij Scholia,
quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam
explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's device]
VENETIIS [Symbol: Infinity] DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.

Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title,
preface of Sigonius, _Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab
Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum
et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus_; 399 numbered leaves
of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. _Caroli Sigonii
Scholia_, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and
blank end leaf. Part 3. _Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum
aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum_, with
separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character,
except _epitomae_ i-xlv and _index_ which are in the italic type of
the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and
unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the _Medici
antiqui_ of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, after