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Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) Opera quae extant Omnia.
[Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1578.
First complete edition, three large folio volumes; large paper issue, Greek text with Latin translation by Jean de Serres (1540-1598); lacking final blank in volume one; bound in full uniform 18th century calf, neatly rebacked; light marginal dampstaining more or less throughout, titles expertly mounted; first title with bottom line of imprint abraded and clean tear across lower outer corner of Nn1, early owners' inscriptions on titles; 14 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (3)
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." (Quoted from Schreiber's The Estiennes.)
