Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
SCALIGER, JOSEPH, editor. Paroimiai emmetroi. Proverbiales Graecorum versus. Greek text followed by Latin translation. 31, [1]; 26, [1] pages, including erratum leaf at end. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 211x148 mm, 19th-century 1/2 morocco with blind-stamped Stirling-Maxwell arms on front cover, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip; contents toned with occasional foxing, A3 in second part torn in outer margin and restored with text neatly supplied in manuscript. Bookplates of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell and Victor de Guinzbourg on front endpapers, Stirling-Maxwell's smaller small Keir House bookplate on rear pastedown. Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1593(-94)

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first edition of a collection of Greek proverbs rendered in verse by Scaliger.