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POLITIANUS, ANGELUS. Omnia opera. [452] leaves. Roman, Greek, and Hebrew type. Folio, 312x214 mm, 18th-century vellum boards with morocco lettering pieces; occasional light marginal foxing and dampstaining in lower outer corners, scattered early marginalia and marginal markings, title foxed, trimmed and masked to size with 2 small holes causing slight text loss, small hole in blank lower outer corner of next leaf, blank portions excised from last 3 leaves and restored with last leaf mounted. wide-margined copy. (Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1498)
first collected edition of the Latin writings and translations by one of the outstanding classical scholars of the period. The first use of Hebrew type in Venice appears on C5v, line 21, and H8r, line 32. HC 13218; BMC V, 559; ISTC ip00886000; Renouard, page 17(4); Ahmanson-Murphy 26; Reynolds & Wilson, pages 143-46.
