Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri , 1526 - 1527, in-4 (31 x 22 cm - 12.2 x 8.7 inches), 81ff., [1] f., 1436 col., [15] f. (sign. a-z8, A-Y,8 Z,6 Aa 8), end 18 century quater parchment with a covering glued patterns paper signed by the French bookbinder living in Parma (Louis Antoine Laferte death in 1790), some wears on the parchment and on the paper covering, flat spined with gilt lettered beige morocco label.
Third edition given by the Aldes in Venice of this work of Niccolo Perotti (1429 - 1421). The title of the book "Cornucopiae" [Horn of abundance], sive linguae Latinae, evokes one of the titles mentioned by Aulus-Gellius - the magical horn of Amathea. " This work, one of the most important of those left by Perotti, is not a dictionary, as the title suggests it, but a comment on the book of Spectacles and the first Epigrams of Martial. It appears that Perotti had given up finishing the explanation of a work so full of obscenities and that he did not intend his work for the public. It was Pirro Perotti, his nephew, who made it print in Venice in 1489, in-fol., with additions and a foreword which contains some rather interesting details. The explanation of the licentious passages belongs only to the editor, who acknowledge it. This first edition is very rare; but the book-lover looks more for the different editions printed by the Aldes presses in Venice : 1499,1513 and 1526, in fol." (Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne T.32). The first colophon folio marked k8 indicates: May 1526 and second folio marked Aa 8 indicates: March 1527. Marks of the printer on title and on the back of the colophons. Traces of the passage of a worm on the pastedowns and on title. Also small attacks of a worm at the first 6 leaves with loss of some letters but without gravity. Browning at a few leaves of the index and small tear without loss on the top of one of the index pages. Some pale waterstains in the blank margins here and there. From the Library of the Count Niccolo [Ghisilardi] Fava. (Handwritten owner's inscription dated 1786 on first pastedown (Ex Biblioth: Niccolai Comitis Fava)and initials of the count on the lower part of title. Handwritten glosses (in Italian) at the lower part of the last leave. Binding with first covering marbled paper signed by the bookbinder of the Royal Library in Parma, Louis-Antoine Laferte. See about him : Silvana Gorreri " Louis-Antoine Laferté: legatore francese in Parma" , in Rara volumina, Rivista di studi sull' editoria di pregio E it libro illustrato, 2/1994, M.P. Fazzi editore, Lucca. For references about this work of Perotti see : Adams P-725. ; Renouard (Alde) p. 180 n°9.