Παλαιότυπα / 16th - 18th Century books Lot. 8001
Starting Price: 200 €
Johannes Chrysostomos / Ιωάννης ο Χρυσόστομος, “Του αγίου Ιωάννου του Χρυσοςτόμου Εις πάσας του Παύλου του απόστολου επιστολάς ακριβεστάτη, και χρασή αλεθής, και θεία ερμηνεία. Divi Ioannis Chrysostomi In omnes Pauli apostoli epistolas accuratissima, vereque aurea, & divina interpretatio. Verona, per Stephanum & fratres a Sabio, quarto kalendas Iulias [i. e. June 28] 1529. Volume 1st of 4. Editio princeps. Folio (346 x 246 mm), [16], 1 blanc leaf, 200 of 204 leaves. Printed in Greek. ”this edition is the most beautiful of all printed by the Sabio brothers” (Dibdin). The Sabio brothers were the most active printers of Greek in Italy during the second quarter of the sixteenth century. They worked in Venice, Rome, Milan, Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, and from 1529 to 1532 in Verona. The editor of the current edition is Bernardino Donato, who held the chair of Greek in Padua from 1526 onwards, then lectured in Verona. Dibdin, Voyage bibliographique, II, 99; Graesse II, 152; Adams C 1539 Missing leaves 4-7. Contemporary full vellum, worn, with handwritten title on front board. A poor copy: the first four leaves & title page in poor condition, fragile & with holes (no loss of text), signs of mold on covers and first leaves. Signs of water-stains on the rest of the leaves margins. Occasional marginalia.
Lot. 8002
Starting Price: 1800 €
Heliodorus Emesenus / Ηλιόδωρος ο Εμεσηνός, “Ηλιοδώρ ου Αιθιοπικής ιστορίας βιβλία δέκα. Heliodori Historiae Aethiopicae libri decem, nunquam antea in lucem editi”, Basel, ex Officina Hervagiana, February 1534. Editio princeps Small 4to (19 x 14 cm), pp. [7], 242, [1] leaf with printer’s mark. Written in the 3rd cent. AD, Aethiopica is considered as the oldest and best of the Greek romances that have come down to us. The current First Edition is based on a manuscript from the library of Matthias Corvinus, found at the sack of Buda (Ofen) in 1526, now codex graecus 157 of Bayerische Staatsbibl. The romance had a tremendous impact through the centuries and was translated into nearly all European languages – Hoffmann counts more than 70 editions up to 1820, Racine had memorized it and Verdi has adopted parts of it for his opera Aida. 18th century full Russia leather, with boards richly decorated in gilt, gilt edges and inner edges, flat spine richly gilt. Bottom corner of lower cover chipped, slightly rubbed along edges. Some light marginal foxing to first and last leaves. Old marginalia in brown ink: corrections of the text. Adams H-174; Hoffmann II, 197.
R A R E B O O K S , M A P S , P R I N T S , P H OTO G R A P H Y & D O C U M E N T S
Lot. 8003
Starting Price: 1000 €
“Ιωάννου του Στοβαίου εκλογαί αποφθεγμάτων. Ioannis Stobaei Collectiones sententiarum”, Venice, “In aedibus Bartholomaei Zanetti Casterzagensis, aere vero & diligentia Ioannis Francisci Trincaueli, MDXXXVI” [1536] (colophon). Small 4to, 314 unnumbered leaves. Large wood-cut on titlepage and the same wood-cut in full-page size at the end. First edition of Stobaeus’s Eclogae, constituting part of his text entitled Anthologion, a work that was divided into two in the Middle Ages: Eclogae and Florilegium (Sermones). Signs of water-stain on external corners throughout - more evident on first and last leaves - with small loss of the page upper ext. corners of the last two leafs. Headpiece and engraved initials, in page [7] in red colour. Ex-libris label “T. Gaisford” and handwritten text dated in 1808. Early 19th century full leather. Heavily worn along spine, joints and front cover. Loss of the lower corner leather of the front cover. Hoffmann III 445, Ελληνική βιβλιοθήκη 59.
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