Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
EPISTOLAE DIVERSORUM PHILOSOPHORUM, ORATORUM, RHETORUM. Greek text, edited by Marcus Musurus. [266]; [138] leaves, including the 2 blanks, with [theta]6 and [theta]5 bound before [eta]1 in first volume. 2 volumes in one. 4to, 212x150 mm, 17th-century calf with gilt arms of Claude de Tudert, seigneur de la Bournalière (1601-69, Oliver 1976), rebacked, binding badly worn and broken; dampstaining and early marginalia at beginning and end, first 6 leaves trimmed and remargined to size. 16th-century owner's inscription on title ("Sum Joannis Arcerij Theodor. 1565"); bookplate of Albert May Todd (lot 325 in the sale of his collection at Parke-Bernet, 12 November 1941). (Venice: Aldus Manutius, [29] March 1499); [not before 17 April 1499]

Additional Details

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. Hain-Copinger 6659; GW 9367; BMC V, 560; Goff E64; ISTC ie00064000; Renouard, page 18(1); Ahmanson-Murphy 30; Hoffmann II, 30.