Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
EUNAPIUS. De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum. Latin translation and notes by Hadrianus Junius, followed by the original Greek text. 194, [6]; 213, [2] pages, including colophon leaf at end. 8vo, 163x106 mm, 1/2 circa 1800, spine darkened with light stains at top; intermittent and occasionally heavy foxing, stain on fore edge of last several leaves. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1568

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first edition of the original Greek text and first edition in latin of an early 4th-century collection of 23 biographies of Neoplatonic philosophers. Hoffmann II, 65; Sarton I, 393; Voet 1143A, 1142.