ALDINE PRESS. PINDAR. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. CALLIMACHUS. Hymni. DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. De situ orbis. LYCOPHRON. Alexandra, obscurum poema [edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, January 1513. Aldine 8vo, 143 x 94mm. ( 5 5/8 x 3 11/16in.), dark green morocco, covers with gilt fillet border, anchor device gilt-blocked on upper cover, spine gilt in six compartments, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Ramage, joints and extremities somewhat rubbed, spine slightly darkened, lacking fol. 24/4 blank, headlines of 23/3v and 23/6r just shaved, occasional light foxing, first and last quires a trifle discolored. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Pindar and Lycophron, second edition in Greek of Callimachus and Dionysius, Greek type, printer's woodcut device on title. Adams P-1218; Hoffmann III, 96; Renouard Alde 64.9 ("édition belle et rare"). | Christie's

Lot 38

ALDINE PRESS. PINDAR. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. CALLIMACHUS. Hymni. DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. De situ orbis. LYCOPHRON. Alexandra, obscurum poema [edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, January 1513. Aldine 8vo, 143 x 94mm. ( 5 5/8 x 3 11/16in.), dark green morocco, covers with gilt fillet border, anchor device gilt-blocked on upper cover, spine gilt in six compartments, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Ramage, joints and extremities somewhat rubbed, spine slightly darkened, lacking fol. 24/4 blank, headlines of 23/3v and 23/6r just shaved, occasional light foxing, first and last quires a trifle discolored. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Pindar and Lycophron, second edition in Greek of Callimachus and Dionysius, Greek type, printer's woodcut device on title. Adams P-1218; Hoffmann III, 96; Renouard Alde 64.9 ("édition belle et rare").

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ALDINE PRESS. PINDAR. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. CALLIMACHUS. Hymni. DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. De situ orbis. LYCOPHRON. Alexandra, obscurum poema [edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, January 1513. Aldine 8vo, 143 x 94mm. ( 5 5/8 x 3 11/16in.), dark green morocco, covers with gilt fillet border, anchor device gilt-blocked on upper cover, spine gilt in six compartments, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Ramage, joints and extremities somewhat rubbed, spine slightly darkened, lacking fol. 24/4 blank, headlines of 23/3v and 23/6r just shaved, occasional light foxing, first and last quires a trifle discolored. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Pindar and Lycophron, second edition in Greek of Callimachus and Dionysius, Greek type, printer's woodcut device on title. Adams P-1218; Hoffmann III, 96; Renouard Alde 64.9 ("édition belle et rare").
Provenance: A few early marginalia in Greek.