Lot 672
Plato
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Opera a Marsilio Ficino traducta: adiectis ad eius vitae & operum enarrationem Axiocho ab Rodulpho Agricola: & Alcyone ab Augustino Datho tralatis. Paris: venundantur Iodoco Badio, [1522]. Folio, titlepage with an elaborate archetonic border, device of printing press on the titlepage , large crible initials, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, edges worn, remains of clasps, lacking front free endpapers, ownership inscription on the titlepage, titlepage detached and edges a little frayed, library stamps on the verso of the titlepage, small library stamp in the outer corner of f. 1 of text, single worm holes, some marginalia in an early hand, water staining of the upper margin
Footnote
Note: Adams P1444, Renouard III p. 169 no II.
Provenance: With an inscription by the 16th century Nurenburg astronomer and doctor Nicolaus Gugler.