Live auction - Lot 973
[Aldine Press - Greek]
[Opera and] Callimachi hymni [and] Lycophronis Alexandra.
Venice, A. Manutius the Elder, A. Asulano, January 1513
Hammer price: €
2.000
€ 2.500 / 3.000
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-373-[1] pp. (final bl. missing, toned, marg. spotting, occ. soiling, single wormholes in 1st and last ff.).
Old boards covered with decorative paper, flat spine, red edges, remains of older leather binding pasted as endpapers. Kept in clamshell box with morocco label. Good copy.
Famous Aldine editio princeps of Pindar, Callimachus and Lycophron. But for the Latin dedication by Manutius to Andrea Navagero entirely in Greek. Aldine mark on title. Capital spaces with guide-letters.
Ref. EDIT16 37488. - Renouard 64-65:9 ("belle et rare"). - Ahmanson/Murphy 108. - Adams P-1218.