Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 510
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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
IAMBLICHUS; et al. Peri biou Pythagorikou logos . . . De vita Pythogorica liber, Graece & Latine. Greek text with Latin translation by Ulrich Obrecht and notes by Ludolph Kuster, Lucas Holstein, and Konrad Rittershausen; edited by Kuster. [16], 219, [17]; 67, [1]; 93, [7] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Pythagoras. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, spine worn, chipped at top, joints cracked, cords intact; minor worming in blank upper margin of opening leaves. Amsterdam: widow of Sebastian Petzold and her son Christian Petzold, 1707

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first kuster edition of a collection of writings on the life of Pythagoras, also including the text and translation of the biography by Porphyry and an anonymous work from the Myrobiblion of Photius. Hoffmann II, 388, and III, 284.