Lot n° 379

DIOGENES LAERTIUS.- De vita, & moribus philosophorum libri decem, novissime iam post o[mn]es omnium castigationes nova diligentia emendati, ad exemplaria Graeca diligenter collati […]. [ Köln], Eucharius Agrippinas excudebat, 1535 mense Martio....

Estimation : 300 - 400 €
Adjudication : 800 €
Description
Small in-8° : [24]-679 pp. (small foxing, marginal dampstains, marginal tear in one leaf).


Contemporary binding : blind stamped calf, ribbed spine with blind fillets (spine and edges of the boards renewed, rubbed, lack in the upper turn in, scratches on lower board, corners dulled).

Compilation of lives and works of Greek philosophers from Anaximander to Epicurius, translated by Ambrosio Traversari. Text illustrated with some ornemental initials and with Agrippinas' vignette on the title-page.

USTC 637610.
VD 16 D 1838.
Machiels 197.
Soltész D-171.
not in Adams (other ed.).

▬BOUND WITH, same condition but foxing more numerous :
•VIVES, Juan Luis.- De officio mariti [...] ab ipso autore multis in locis nunc primum auctus & recognitus [...]. Basileae, in officina Roberti Winter, 1538 mense Martio. [38]-[2 bl.]-155-[3] pp. (incomplete of last blank lf.). Treatise on the institution of marriage, with observations on women's psychology and weaknesses, by Vives (1493-1540), Valencian scholar and humanist and friend of Erasmus.

VD 16 V 1883;
USTC 667559; not in Machiels, Adams, Soltész.

→Recueil des vies et oeuvres de philosophes grecs. Plein veau estampé à froid (rouss., mouill. marg., rel. en partie restaurée). Relié avec le traité sur le mariage de Vives.

Ens. 2 ouvr. en 1 vol. in-8° -
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