Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 101

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DIOGENES LAERTIUS. De vita, & moribus philosophorum libri decem. Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari. Printer's woodcut device on last page. [20], 391, [1] pages. 4to, 201x133 mm, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, spine darkened and discolored, cover edges worn through; title and last leaf soiled, dampstain in lower margin of title and next leaf, scattered marginal pencil markings, upper outer corner torn off front free endpaper. Basel: Valentin Curio, (1 September ) 1524

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The first history of early Greek philosophy, written in the 3rd century A.D., first published in Traversari's translation circa 1472, and in the original Greek in 1533. Hoffmann I, 568.