GELLIUS, Aulus. Noctes atticae.
Estimation :
400 / 500
Adjudication :
400 €
Description
Excud. Lugd. [ Lyon], Seb. Gryphius, 1532. In-8° : [74]-[2 bl.]-555-[1] pp. (marginal dampstains, some stains, handwritten provenances on the title-page). 17th century binding : bordeaux morocco, boards fully decorated with gilt fillets (fleurons in the angles), one roll-stamp and one flower tool in the center, gilt decorated ribbed spine, gilt roll-stamps on the turn ins, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION published in Lyon by Sébastien Gryphe, despite the qualification of "third edition" by a ms. note on the upper pastedown, of the only work and famous compilation by Aulus Gellius. With an index of the Greek words and their Latin translation.
Text decorated with ornemental initials (one figuring cherubs) and with 2 vignettes of Gryphe (one large at the back of last leaf).
# Baudrier VIII-62;
# USTC 146470;
# not in Soltész, Adams, STC French, Machiels, Dibdin.
Première édition publiée à Lyon par S. Grype de l'unique ouvrage d'Aulu-Gelle. Plein maroquin bordeaux du 17e s. (mouill. marg.).
FIRST EDITION published in Lyon by Sébastien Gryphe, despite the qualification of "third edition" by a ms. note on the upper pastedown, of the only work and famous compilation by Aulus Gellius. With an index of the Greek words and their Latin translation.
Text decorated with ornemental initials (one figuring cherubs) and with 2 vignettes of Gryphe (one large at the back of last leaf).
# Baudrier VIII-62;
# USTC 146470;
# not in Soltész, Adams, STC French, Machiels, Dibdin.
Première édition publiée à Lyon par S. Grype de l'unique ouvrage d'Aulu-Gelle. Plein maroquin bordeaux du 17e s. (mouill. marg.).
