PLATO (ca. 427-347 BC). Omnia divini Platonis opera, tralati...
Hammer
€500
PLATO (ca. 427-347 BC). Omnia divini Platonis opera, tralatione Marsilii Ficini. Venice: Giovanni Maria Bonelli, 1556.
A wide-margined copy in a sturdy contemporary binding of this Venetian edition of the complete works of Plato, in the celebrated Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the text that played a decisive role in the revival of Platonism in Renaissance Europe.
Folio (310 × 210 mm). Printer's devices on the title-page and at end, figurated woodcut initials, text in two columns (marginal staining to the final leaves). Contemporary full vellum over reused material, title on lower edge, nineteenth-century title label applied to spine (minor defects). Provenance: early ownership inscriptions on the title-page and endpapers. (1)
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PLATO (ca. 427-347 BC). Omnia divini Platonis opera, tralatione Marsilii Ficini. Venice: Giovanni Maria Bonelli, 1556.
A wide-margined copy in a sturdy contemporary binding of this Venetian edition of the complete works of Plato, in the celebrated Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the text that played a decisive role in the revival of Platonism in Renaissance Europe.
Folio (310 × 210 mm). Printer's devices on the title-page and at end, figurated woodcut initials, text in two columns (marginal staining to the final leaves). Contemporary full vellum over reused material, title on lower edge, nineteenth-century title label applied to spine (minor defects). Provenance: early ownership inscriptions on the title-page and endpapers. (1)
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