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(GREEK ANTHOLOGY.) Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros. Greek text. 289, [1] leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 156x100 mm, 18th-century red morocco gilt, few small wormholes at top and bottom of spine; occasional light marginal soiling. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, January 1521)
Second Aldine edition of the anthology of ancient Greek and Byzantine epigrams compiled by the 13th-century monk and scholar Maximus Planudes. The first edition was printed in 1494, the first Aldine in 1503. Renouard, page 93(17); New UCLA 195; Hoffmann I, 168.
