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Aeschines. Epistolae A Renato Guillonio Vindocinensi latine quidem factae, rare first edition, Paris, André Wechel, 1555.

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Aeschines. Epistolae, translated into Latin and with commentary by René Guillon, collation: A-D4 E2, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, the odd spot, modern marbled boards, small 4to (215 x 150mm.), Paris, André Wechel, 1555.

⁂ Rare first edition of this humanist version of the Greek letters attributed to Aechines, the Greek statesman and one of the Attic orators. Guillon was a pupil of Guillaume Budé. USTC records only three copies, of which none are in the UK (Harvard, BnF and Lyon).

Literature: Adams A261.


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Aeschines. Epistolae, translated into Latin and with commentary by René Guillon, collation: A-D4 E2, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, the odd spot, modern marbled boards, small 4to (215 x 150mm.), Paris, André Wechel, 1555.

⁂ Rare first edition of this humanist version of the Greek letters attributed to Aechines, the Greek statesman and one of the Attic orators. Guillon was a pupil of Guillaume Budé. USTC records only three copies, of which none are in the UK (Harvard, BnF and Lyon).

Literature: Adams A261.

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