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(SCIENCE.) Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius. In somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis libri duo [and other texts]. Title within composite woodcut historiated border with Badius printing press device; 13 woodcut text illustrations, including repeats, and 4 diagrams; zonal world map on D4r; criblé initials throughout, some historiated. [6], 112; 9, [1] leaves. Folio, 326x210 mm, later vellum boards, covers slightly warped; scattered early underscoring and marginalia, some passages faintly inked over but legible, light marginal dampstains on a few leaves. Paris: Jodocus Badius, (5 November 1524)
Second Badius edition of an early 5th century A.D. treatise on Neoplatonic philosophy in the form of a commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, with extensive incidental remarks on cosmology and the sciences. Also included are the Saturnalia by Macrobius, a dialogue on various subjects set at a banquet during the Saturnalian festival; and De die natali by Censorinus, on miscellaneous topics relating to conception, birth, and chronology. bound after: Gellius, Aulus. Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Title in red and black within composite woodcut historiated border with Badius printing press device; criblé initials throughout, some historiated. [8], 136, [6] leaves. Minor marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Paris: Jodocus Badius, (October 1524).
