Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

45. pLATO. Opera Omnia, translatione marsilii
Ficini, emendatione et ad graecum Codicem collaiione
Simonis Grynaei. Basle, Froben, 1539,
€ 4.000
folio, pp.(12), 959,
(14), very fine
contemporary calf
binding over wooden
board, fully
decorated. Many
initial letters decorated,
some astronomical
diagrams
to illustrate the
Timaeus. Very
important and
rare edition of
Plato translated by
Ficino. Fine copy
in a precious contemporary binding. Not in BMC and
Adams, not in Frognal Dibdin. [3021]
46. pOLITIANuS, Angelus. Omnia Opera et
alia quaedam lectu digna… Venice, Aldus, 1498,
€ 32.000
2 vols., folio (320x200 mm.), 451 leaves (one blanc missing),
roman type with greek and hebrew words (used here
for the first time by Aldus). Modern calf binding. First edition
of the latin works of Politianus, the great Italian
humanist and
poet of the XV
century. One of
the most important
books edited
by Aldo, it contains
the first
specimen of his
Hebrew type.
BMC, V, 559.
Renouard p.17.
Vatican Library
429. [5509]
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