Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
AESCHYLUS. Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur. Greek text; edited by Willem Canter. 355, [13] pages, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end. 12mo, later vellum with morocco lettering piece; light marginal dampstaining through much of volume. Harvard College Library bookplate (Herbert Weir Smyth bequest, with release stamp). Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1580

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first canter edition. Adams A270; Hoffmann I, 35-36. From the library of the Harvard Hellenist Herbert Weir Smyth (1857-1937), translator and editor of the 1922-26 Loeb Classical Library edition of Aeschylus.