[Postincunable. Armorial binding] Apparatus Latinae Locutionis

Ex M.T. Cicerone, Caesare, Sallustio, Terentio, Plauto, ad Herennium, Asconio, Celso, ac de re rustica, per Bartholomaeum Riccium Lugiensem in suum ordinem descriptus. Sebastian Gryphius. Lyon, 1534. First Lyonese printing. Red morocco binding, edges gilt, title on spine, boards with floral line border, corners with typographical motifs and central coat of arms of Ramiro de Guzman, duke of Medina de las Torres, in gilt stamping. Endpapers, title with printer's mark, 847,(1),(61) pp. and a wood engraving on the final page. Several detailed capitals in woodcut in the text. Endpapers with sign. and minor dam., lacks last endpaper. Spine somewhat tender with minor dam., bookblock broken. Else a very good copy.

A lovely Spanish 17th-century nobility binding with coat of arms. Some twenty other books are known with a similar binding. The motto "Revoluta Foecundata" (see back board) was used by Guzman after his return to Spain in 1645. Among other things, Guzman was viceroy of Naples from 1637 to 1644. Bartholomeo Ricci (1490-1569) was an Italian writer and poet. The first edition with this title: Venetiis : per J. Mantonium et fratres de Sabio, 1533.