Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MAXIMUS TYRIUS. Sermones sive Disputationes XLI. Greek text with Latin translation by Cosimo Pazzi, Archbishop of Florence, edited by Henri Estienne. [8], 363 [i. e., 263], [1]; [16], 320 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, first volume 159x99 mm in 18th-century brown morocco gilt, second volume 168x105 mm in contemporary sheep with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, missing portions of spine, cover corners worn through; contents of the first volume toned with light marginal foxing, second volume has occasional soiling, isolated marginal dampstains, and scattered contemporary underscoring and marginalia. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1557

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first edition in the original greek of writings by a 2nd-century C.E. philosopher, together with Henri Estienne's revision of the 1517 Latin translation by Archbishop Pazzi. GLN-2041, GLN-2042; Hoffmann II, 584 and 587; Schreiber 141a-b.