Live auction - Lot 743

[Italy - Venice]

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus

Opera philosophica. Epistolae.

[Venice, J. & G. de Gregoriis de Forlivio, c. 1492]

€ 1.000 / 1.500

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Folio: ccxxxv (= 235)-[1 bl.] ff., 60 ll. (lacking 2 initial ff. with i.a. spurious letters to St Paul; a few ff. toned, some minor spotting or dampstaining, blank piece cut from top margin of title, tiny wormtracks in 2nd half occ. touching a few letters).

Cont. limp vellum (sl. loosening, some def.). Good copy.

Rare early ed. of the Letters and Philosophical writings of the younger Seneca. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. ISTC is00372000. - Goff S-372. - IGI 8871. - BMC V:596. - BSB-Ink S-269. - Not in CIBN, Polain. Prov. A few cont. annotations. - Old ownership entry on title. - Libr. stamps.

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Lot 743

Opera philosophica. Epistolae.

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus

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