Aristides, Orationes, Florence, 1517, later calf

Aelius Aristides

Λογοι. Orationes. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1517

folio (311 x 205mm.), text in Greek, woodcut device on verso of final leaf, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, later gilt lettering-piece, first leaf slightly soiled, binding slightly rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine

FIRST EDITION of the orations of Aristides, printed with the Kallierges typeface.

Please note that this lot has already been granted an export licence by the Italian authorities.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 2847; Pettas, Giunti 105

PROVENANCE:

Jesuit College of Rome, inscription; Erich von Rath (1881-1948, librarian at Bonn and incunabulist), bookplate