Lot n° 1075

Estienne imprint - MAXIMUS TYRIUS - Sermones sive Disputationes XLI, Graece nunc primum editae. [bound with] ID. - Idem [Latin trsl. Cosimo Pazzi, rev. Henri Estienne]. Geneva, H. Estienne, 1557,

Estimation : 250 / 250
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
id. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo, old English calf (somewhat worn), spine on 5 raised bands (broken, head and tail def., joints split, front cover loosening), [8]-363 (= 263)-[1], [16]-320 pp. (quires I-L bound in wrong order; some sl. spotting). “Editio princeps of the 41 Greek dissertations (...) by the itinerant Platonist lecturer Maximus of Tyre, reputed to have been the teacher of Marcus Aurelius” (Schreiber). The Latin trsl. was 1st publ. Rome 1517. Woodcut mark on titles. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Old name on title "Jacobus Janssonius". Collector’s stamp.
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