319 / 444
269
239-240 = blank; some spotting and marginal dampstaining, blank bottom corner of *3-4 torn off,
worming in blank inner margin of 1st ff.). Good copy.
€ 250/400
Editio princeps
, dedicated by Plantin to Cardinal Sirleto, of Stobaeus’ important compilation of
fragments from Greek Antiquity. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in 2 cols with Greek text facing
Latin trsl. Armorial bookplate John Alfred Spranger. Collector’s stamp.
Ref.
Voet (Plantin Press)
2263. BR 4429. Pettegree NB 28578. Adams S-1879. Hoffmann III:635-636.
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[Postincunable - Paris]
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OROSIUS, Paulus
- Opus praestantissimum. Paris, J. M[archant] for J.
Petit, 18 September 1510, [18]-cxxiii-[1] ff. [bound with]
PROBUS, Aemilius -
Vitae excellentium
imperatorum (...) Ti. Pomponii Attici vita per Cornelium Nepotem descriptio. Plutarchi liber de
illustrium mulierum virtutibus. Eiusdem Paralelia. Strasburg, M. Schürer, 21 March 1506 [= 1511],
[100] ff. [and]
DIOGENES LAERTIUS -
De philosophorum vita decem per q(uam) secundi libri
ad bene beateque viuendu(m) co(m)motiui [ed.] Benedetto Brognolo [Latin trsl. from the Greek]
Ambrogio Traversari. Paris, J. M[archant] for J. Petit, [c. 1509], [8]-cxxxvii-[1] ff. (1st ff. frayed,
last ff. loose, some soiling, dampstaining at end, some worming in blank inner margin), 4to, cont.
blindstamped calf over wood (rebacked, clasps gone), spine on 4 raised bands with gilt labels, metal
catches. Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 350/600
3 rare postincunables with Latin texts on Classical Antiquity. Woodcut marks. Full-page woodcut
on verso of 3rd title. A few cont. ms. notes. Cont. ownership entries on title, partly deleted; on 3rd
title “Paderborni”. Libr. stamps.
Ref. 1.
Moreau I:380:168. Pettegree FB 81133. Adams O-308.
2.
VD-16 N-518. Benzing 421. Muller 56. Schmitt 51. Not in Adams.
3.
Moreau I:317:68. Pettegree
65070. Hoffmann II:75. Not in Adams.
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[Postincunable - Venice]
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[SALLUSTIUS]
- Hoc in uolumine haec continentur. Pomponii
Epistola ad Augustinum Mapheu(m). C. Crispi Salustii Bellum catilinarium cum commento
Laurentii Vallensis & Omniboni Leoniceni. Portii Latronis Declamatio contra L. Catilinam. C.
Crispi Salustii Bellum iugurthinum cum commentariis (...) Ioannis Chrysostomi Soldi brixiani. C.
Crispi Salustii variae rationes ex libris eiusdem historiarum excerptae. C. Crispi Salusti vita. Romae
per Pomponium emendata Venetiisque quam diligentissime recognita & reuisa. Venice, G. Tacuino,
6 July 1506, folio, later half calf (rubbed), marbled paper on covers, gilt flat spine, cxi ff. (lacking
final blank; occ. staining and soiling, worming in blank inner and bottom margin of 1st ff.). Good
copy.
€ 300/400
Very rare repr. of the Venice 1491 and 1500 eds of this early humanist collection of Sallust, with
notes by i.a. Omnibonus Leonicenus (1412-1474), Pomponio Leto (1428-1497) and Lorenzo Valla
(1407-1457). Large woodcut at top of title. Woodcut mark at the end. A few manuscript notes and
reader’s marks.
Ref.
Edit16 62694 (3 in Italy only). Not in Adams, BnF, BL etc.
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