Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PYTHAGORAS. Aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Théodore Marcile. [24], 90, [6] pages, the last leaf blank * HIEROCLES of Alexandria. Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Greek text and Latin translation by Joannes Curterius on facing pages. xxiiii, 247 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 12mo, contemporary sheep gilt, spine ends worn; dark stain through upper portion of contents. Paris: Nicolas Nivelle, 1585; (Étienne Prévosteau for) Nicolas Nivelle, 1583

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first marcile edition of the so-called Golden Verses, a collection of ethical precepts attributed to Pythagoras; bound with the first edition of a 5th-century A.D. commentary on the Golden Verses also including the original text of the latter. Hoffmann III, 330, and II, 266. See also lot 320.