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PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia. Greek text with Latin translation by Jean de Serres. [36], 542; [8], 992; [8], 416, 139 pages, lacking final blank in Volume 1. 4 parts in 3 volumes. Folio, 376x238 mm, 18th-century calf, rebacked in the early 19th-century; light marginal dampstaining more or less throughout, titles expertly mounted, Volume 1 with bottom line of imprint abraded and clean tear across lower outer corner of 2N1, early owners' inscriptions on titles. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1578
first complete edition; large-paper issue. Henri Estienne's monumental edition " . . . for two centuries remained the indispensable instrument of Platonic studies; to this day its pagination is universally accepted as the standard system of reference to the text of Plato"--Schreiber 201. Renouard (Estienne) I, 145-46(1); Hoffmann III, 119-21.
