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GEORGE of Trebizond; et al. Continentur hoc volumine Georgii Trapezuntii Rhetoricorum libri V [and other texts]. [4], 161, [1] leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. Folio, 299x204 mm, 18th-century mottled calf with morocco lettering piece; occasional light marginal dampstaining, light soiling and faded 17th-century inscription on title; red edges. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April 1523)
only aldine edition of the first comprehensive Renaissance treatise on rhetoric, notable for its innovative use of Greek sources, originally published circa 1472 and here reprinted with related writings by Greek and Roman authors. Renouard, page 97(2); New UCLA 220; Contemporaries of Erasmus III, 341. George (1395-1472) was a Cretan émigré scholar and, with Cardinal Bessarion, one of the principal antagonists in the mid-15th-century controversy in Greek humanist circles over Platonic versus Aristotelian philosophy (see lot 20).
