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DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Vitae et sententiae philosophorum. Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari; edited by Benedetto Brognolo. 182 (of 187) leaves; lacks [b]2.9 (replaced in pen-and-ink facsimile on laid paper), [e]3.4, and final blank. Roman type with occasional use of Greek. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 262x192 mm, 18th-century French citron morocco, spine attractively gilt in 6 compartments, with morocco lettering piece in one and all-over pattern of repeating volutes in the rest; unobtrusively washed with faint residual early marginalia, [a]1 mounted, with [a]3-4 (table) bound in front. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 14 August 1475
Second edition of the first history of early Greek philosophy, an important source for the lives and thought of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others, first published circa 1472; the original Greek text first appeared in 1533. GW 8379; BMC V, 175; Goff D220; Hoffmann I, 567; EP II, 408; Sarton I, 318.<
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