STOBAEUS, Johannes. Collectiones sententiarum, in Greek, Venice: Artolomeo Zanetti for Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli, 1536 [colophon: February 1535]. 4°, printer's device on title, a larger one on verso of final leaf, decorative headpieces and initials, printed in red on A1r (light marginal waterstaining, upper margin very lightly dust-soiled), early limp vellum, yapp edges (lacking ties, lettering-piece chipped, lightly soiled); pencilled inscription of Henry Broadley, Trinity College (dated 1822); bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College. FIRST EDITION. Adams S1870; Bruent V, 545; Layton p. 518.

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STOBAEUS, Johannes. Collectiones sententiarum, in Greek, Venice: Artolomeo Zanetti for Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli, 1536 [colophon: February 1535]. 4°, printer's device on title, a larger one on verso of final leaf, decorative headpieces and initials, printed in red on A1r (light marginal waterstaining, upper margin very lightly dust-soiled), early limp vellum, yapp edges (lacking ties, lettering-piece chipped, lightly soiled); pencilled inscription of Henry Broadley, Trinity College (dated 1822); bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College. FIRST EDITION. Adams S1870; Bruent V, 545; Layton p. 518.

ARISTOPHANES. Facetissimi comoediae undecim, Venice: Giovanni Farri and brothers, 1542. 8°, printer's device on title, historiated woodcut initials, with the final blank (outer margin of title with a few holes, lower margin of B5 repaired, lightly spotted), early vellum over thin pasteboard (torn, extremities worn); early inscription of ?Nikolas Louga in Greek on title, marginal annotations in Greek. Adams A1712; Brunet I, 452.

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