Sale: 348 / Rare Books, Nov. 17./18. 2008 in Hamburg Lot 214

 
Platon - Opera. 1539.


214
Platon
Opera. 1539.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 324
Sold:
€ 636 / $ 686

(incl. surcharge)
Platon, Opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatone Simonis Grynaei ... With woodcut printer's device on the title, numerous woodcut initials and 1 large metalcut initial. Basel, H. Froben and N. Episcopius, August 1539. Contemp. wooden boards with blindtooled calf covering. Folio. 6 ll., 959 pp., 14 ll.
VD 16, P 3278. - Schweiger p. 248. - This ediiton not in BM STC and in Adams. - Second Froben edition of the Latin translation by Ficino. Revised by S. Grynaeus, the best Plato expert in those days. - With end-to-end brown stain in the side margin (first and last ll. into the text area), slightly browned and waterstained, title with small stamp. Binding bumped and rubbed, joints defective.
Second Froben edition translated by Ficino. Contemp. blind- and rollstamped calf over wooden boards. - With brownstain at side throughout (first and last leaves up to the text area), else slight browning and waterstaining, small stamp to title. Binding bumped and rubbed, joints damaged.




214
Platon
Opera. 1539.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 324
Sold:
€ 636 / $ 686

(incl. surcharge)