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EPISTOLAE DIVERSORUM PHILOSOPHORUM, ORATORUM, RHETORUM. Greek text, edited by Marcus Musurus. [138]; [266] leaves. 2 volumes in one, bound in reverse order. 4to, 203x151 mm, contemporary limp vellum dyed red, with overlapping fore edges, binding rubbed, lacking ties, recased with head- and tailbands and endpapers renewed; light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves of Volume 2, with light soiling on title, scattered early marginalia; red edges; linen folding case. (Venice: Aldus Manutius, [29] March 1499); [not before 17 April 1499]
first edition of a collection of letters by or spuriously attributed to 35 ancient Greek and early Byzantine authors, intended to serve as epistolary models. Renouard, page 18(1); New UCLA 30; Hoffmann II, 30; Klebs 379.1; GW 9367; BMC V, 560; Goff E64; ISTC ie00064000.
