Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ARISTEAS, pseud. Verissima Relatione d'Aristea . . . Delli settanta due Interpreti della Sacra Bibbia. Italian translation by Leonardo Cernoti. [8], 95, [1] pages. 8vo, 143x97 mm, later flexible boards; dark smudge on title, contents otherwise clean. Signature of Leonardo Trissino dated 1818. Treviso: Vangelista Deuchino, 1593

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first edition of this translation of a Hellenistic Jewish literary composition on the translation of the Septuagint. The work first appeared in a Latin version in 1471, in Italian in 1477, and in the original Greek in 1561. EJ III, 439; Hoffmann I, 245.