De vita Pythagorae, &. Protrepticae orationes ad philosophiam lib. II [...], Iohanne Arcerio Theodoreto Frisio authore & interpret.

4to: [16]-224, 176, 80 pp. (paper age-toned and occ. sl. dampstained, wormtrack in last ff. touching a few letters).

Cont. overl. vellum (loosening at front), flat spine. Good copy.

Editio princeps, made from a manuscript in the collection of Cardinal Granvelle, by the Frisian humanist and Franeker professor of Greek Arcerius (1538-1604). Greek and Latin on facing pages. Woodcut Commelin mark on title. Ref. Pettegree NB 16387. - Typogr. Bat. 2658. - Adams I-7. - Hoffmann II:529. - Port (Commelin) 181. - STCN (i.a. BL). Joined: Hierocles - Hypomnema [Greek]. Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina, Joan. Curterio interprete [and] De Providentia & Fato, una cum Fragmentis ejusdem, et Lilii Gyraldi interpretatione Symbolorum Pythagorae, notisque Merici Casauboni. London, R. Daniels, 1654-1655. 8vo: [32]-433-[3], [64]-271-[1] pp. (age-toned, some soiling, 2nd title mounted). Old cloth (worn and loosening), red edges. Pt. 1, a repr. of the Paris 1583 ed., followed by a Greek ed. of the treatise on fate, with notes by Meric Casaubon (1599-1671). Woodcut mark on title and part titles. Ref. ESTC R2739. - Wing H-1933. - Hoffmann II:406. Prov. Old ownership entries, i.a. George Mitford 1686 and Tho. Rud 1690. (2 vol.)