Live auction - Lot 800
[Plantin Press - Philosophy]
Manuductionis ad stoicam philosophiam libri tres : L. Annaeo Senecae, aliisque scriptoribus illustrandris.
Antwerp, Plantin Press (J. Moretus), 1604
Hammer price: €
250
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
4to: [12]-212-[3] pp. (sl. (damp)staining, some quires sl. age-toned, C browned, some foxing, sm. hole in f. [5]).
Contemp. vellum with mod. sewing, ink-titled flat spine, red spr. edges, mod. ties and knots (foxing to front cover, lower cover rubbed, flyleaves missing).
Bound with as always, same author, imprint and date: Physiologiae stoicorum libri tres: L. Annaeo Senecae, aliisque scriptoribus illustrandris. [12]-188-[5] pp. (same cond., F browned).
First edition of these two treatises on stoicism. The 2nd ill. with a copper-engr. in-text fig. the land hemisphere. Plantin's mark on title.
Ref. BB III:1074:L513. - Imhof L-55. - STCV.