Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Musurus, Marcus, ed. (c1470-1517)
Epistolae Diversorum Philosophorum, Oratorum, Rhetorum.

Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, [not before 17 Apr. 1499].

Volume two only of two, quarto, printed in Greek characters throughout, lacking final blank, bound in 17th century calf, tooled in gilt on boards and spine, title in gilt lettering directly on spine, contents generally good, 8 x 6 in.

This second volume of letters contains works attributed to Basilius Magnus, Libanius, Chion, Aeschines, Isocrates, Phalaris, Pythagoras, Brutus, Apollonius Tyaneus, Julianus imperator, and Lex de Archiatris.

Goff E64; Klebs 379.1; Pell 4613; CIBN E-53; Polain(B) 1416; IGI 3707; Pr 5569; BMC V 560; BSB-Ink E-86; GW 9367; HC 6659*; Ahmanson-Murphy 30; ISTC ie00064000.