Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
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, and with innermost sheet bound out of order in 2NSUPERSCRIPT6 in Volume 1 and 4NSUPERSCRIPT6 in Volume 3. 4 parts in 3 volumes. Folio, 388x251 mm, early 19th-century navy morocco handsomely gilt with lacework border on covers, spines in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and thistle and ornamental tools in the rest, Volume 2 rebacked with original spine compartments laid down; foxing on endleaves and Volume 1 preliminaries, short repaired clean tear in Volume 2 title, contents otherwise clean; gilt edges. Early 19th-century owner's bibliographical note on blank facing Volume 1 title recording auction results for other sets. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1578

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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.