Aristides, Publius Aelius (c. 117-c. 189).

folio (282 x 180mm.), ff. 183, [1], initial spaces with printed guides, illustration: woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf (otherwise blank), binding: seventeenth-century red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, small wormhole in upper margin at end, extremities very slightly rubbed

Censimento 16 CNCE 2847; Pettas p.206

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editio princeps of Aristides's speeches (although two had been printed by Aldus in 1513). Aristides was a well-respected orator from Smyrna whose surviving orations include details of medical treatment he received in Pergamum. 

The editor, Euphrosynus Boninus, who had been a student of Poliziano and taught at Pisa, worked for the Giunta press in Florence from 1515 to 1517, when Filippo Giunta died.