Anthologia graeca Planudea, Geneva, Estienne, 1566, later red morocco

[Anthologia graeca Planudea]

Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum veterum. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1566

4to (266 x 161mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, text in Greek, nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments in period style, red speckled edges, some deckle edges (particularly at foredge), small hole in gutter of m4, binding slightly rubbed

First Estienne edition of the Greek Anthology, containing some additional epigrams and the scholia of Planudes not in the earlier editions (see lot 13 for the Aldine edition), and a commentary by Estienne himself.

LITERATURE:

GLN 15-16 2294

PROVENANCE:

Paulus Terhaarius of Amsterdam (c. 1625/6-1667), professor at Duisberg, sale, Amsterdam, 8 October 1667; W.R.H. Jeudwine (1920-1984), bookplate, sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 18 September 1984, lot 34