[BINDINGS]. Set of two rare and scholarly early editions from the 16th and 17th c. bound in cold-stamped ivory saddle-skin. 1) Strasbourg edition of 1568 by Theophilus Dasypodius of Cicero. Alterum epistolarum volumen. With a preface by Jean Sturm (1507-1589). 2) P. Michael Pexenfelder. Apparatus eruditionis tam rerum quam verborum per omnes artes et scientias. Sulzbach, Balthasar Joachim &, Martin Endter, 1687 Provenance: Auvernier Castle Library Good condition Binding: Scattered stains and soiling, as is most often the case with these early editions which have been handled. Corners of the sixteenth-century binding slightly dented, one of them more damaged with leather missing Missing cloth laces on the sixteenth-century binding, of which the ends remain Inside pages: Not collated The text block of the 16th c. edition is very clean, with 3 wormholes on the first few leaves. Seventeenth-century edition: several leaves missing from pp. 702-799 (pages severed), a few rare stains, browning of pages in the text block (not in the margins) due to heavy inking