Live auction - Lot 729
[In Greek]. Opera quae extant [...].
Geneva, P. de la Roviere, 1611
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
Folio: [8]-1102-[28] pp. (spotting, occ. extensive, sm. marg. damp stains, tear in p. 23 without lack, wormtrack(s) and/or wormholes to some inner margins, occ. inner margins strengthened at end).
Early 19th-c. half marbled sheep, mod. paper boards, gilt-orn. flat spine (head and tail strengthened, front joint split and part. the lower one, some wormholes, flyleaves renewed).
First Greek-Latin parallel edition, and second edition of the Greek text after the 1544-ed. of Basel. In a translation of Rufinus Aquileiensis. Woodcut printer's mark on title, orn. head- and tailpieces, and some initials.
Ref. Hoffmann II:444.
Prov. "Majoris monasterii Congregationis S. Mauri", i.e. Abbey of Marmoutier (ms. entry dated 1695).