May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Melanchthon, Philip (1497-1560)
De Legibus Oratio.

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1534.

Octavo, woodcut printer's device to title, lacking final blank, contents good, early inscription on title, one or two stray marginal notes; bound in modern half parchment and boards covered in printed leaves, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.

Schreiber 49; Renouard 40: 3.

"Very rare collection which shows Melanchthon in two of his most important roles: educator and Greek scholar. In the De Gradibus he describes the successive stages of a classical education; also included are his Praefatio to the speeches of Aeschines and Demosthenes, and his translation from the Greek of Xenophon's speech of Critias against Theramenes." (Schreiber)