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Property from the Loverdos Collection

Aelianus, Variae historiae [and other works], Rome, Blado, 1545, modern half vellum

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

July 18, 10:07 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Property from the Loverdos Collection


Aelianus, Heraclides, Polemo, Adamantius and Melampus


Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου περι πολιτειων υπομνημα. Πολημωνος φισιογνωμονικων εγχειριδιον... Variae historiae... Rome: Antonio Blado, January 1545


4to (207 x 148mm.), woodcut device on title-page and final verso, text in Greek, with blank leaf between index and colophon, modern half vellum, title-page soiled, cut slightly close at head


EDITIO PRINCEPS of Claudius Aelianus's miscellaneous collection of maxims and anecdotes, containing details of various Greek writers and historians with information about daily habits and customs of the times, such as fishing or dress.


Heraclides Lembus wrote a substantial history which survives only in fragments, but includes the epitome of the Athenian Constitution which appears here. For the editio princeps of Adamantius on physiognomy, based on an earlier text by Polemo (which precedes it in this volume), see lot 6. The work on divination by interpreting twitches (palmomancy) is attributed here to the soothsayer Melampus.


LITERATURE

Edit16 316


PROVENANCE

Carthusians of Venice, inscription on title-page

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