Auction 358 Old & Rare Books - (Post)incunabula
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PLUTARCHUS. Parallèla en biois Ellènônte kai Rômaiôn. Quae vocantur parallela: hoc est, vitae illustrium virorum graeci nominis ac latini, prout quaeque alteri convenire videbatur, accuratius quam antehac unquam digestae. Basel, (A. Kratander & J. Bebel), 1533. (4), 369, (1) lvs. W. woodcut printer's mark at ti-p. and at the end. Fol. Cont. blind tooled pigskin over wooden brds. w. roll stamp blind tooled decorations. (Spine covered with old paper, clasps lack, name of author written Greek on edges (in an old hand), old ownership entry of a Fransiscan library on ti-p., tiny wormhole(s) in outer blank margin, but else a very fine and clean copy with ample margins).

Third and up to then best Greek edition of this work, the first outside of Italy after those by Giunta in 1517 and Aldus in 1519. Edited and with preface by Simon Grynaeus. - Dibdin II, 343; Schweiger I, 259; Hoffmann III, 175; Adams P-1611; VD 16 P-3756.

€ 700

result € 1600

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