Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
[MANUTIUS, ALDUS, the Elder.] Contenta: De Literis Graecis ac Diphthongis, & quemadmodum ad nos veniant . . . Introductio perbrevis ad Hebraicam linguam. [20] leaves. bound after: GAZA, THEODORUS. Grammaticae institutionis liber primus. Latin translation by Desiderius Erasmus; edited by Beatus Rhenanus. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border by Hans Holbein the Younger; 4-part woodcut decorative border on verso, repeated and on I2r and Q1r. [72] leaves. and: LUCIAN of Samosata. Deorum dialogi numero 70. Greek text with Latin translation by Ottmar Nachtgall. Title and a2v-a3r printed in red and black. [84] leaves. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, 208x152 mm, modern morocco with well-preserved contemporary blind-tooled covers by the Cambridge binder Nicholas Spierinck laid down, employing the same fantastic animal roll and fleuron tool found on the binding of lot 49; contents generally clean; 20th-century owner's handwritten catalogue description tipped to front flyleaf. (Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm), [circa 1518]; (Basel: Johannes Froben, November 1516); Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1515
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sammelband of three scarce early 16th-century texts for the study of greek, comprising a separate reprint of the appendix to Aldus's Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor; the translation by Erasmus of the first book of Theodorus Gaza's influential grammar, one of the earliest Greek books printed by Froben, including Greek and Latin dialogues by the editor for school use; and Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods, satirizing the deities of Greek mythology, one of the earliest works in Greek printed in Germany. VD16 M759, T800, L2955; Hoffmann II, 538; Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings AN.f(2), 115.