Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 19,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
EURIPIDES. Tragoediae quattuor. [92] (of [98]) leaves; lacking A2-7 (facsimiles laid in). Greek type. 4to, 201x135 mm, 18th-century calf, rebacked; blank recto of first leaf heavily soiled, scattered minor spotting, misprinted signatures of the last 3 gatherings corrected in ink, light foxing on verso of last leaf. [Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, before 18 June 1495]

Additional Details

first edition in the original greek of Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis. Andromache. The complete plays were first printed in 1503 by Aldus Manutius. Hain-Copinger 6697; GW 9431; BMC VI, 667; Goff E115; ISTC ie00115000; Hoffmann I, 72.