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THEOCRITUS (ca. 310 - ca. 250 B.C.). Eclogae triginta. HESIOD (ca. 7th century B.C.), Theogonia. And other works in Greek. Edited by Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495.
Aldine 2° (307 x 205 mm). Collation: A-D8 E-G6 (A1r title in Greek and Latin, A1v Aldus's dedicatory letter to Battista Guarino, A2r Theocritus's eclogues, G5v Genus Theocriti, G6r De inventione bucolicorum, G6v blank); ZZ10 (1r Maximus Planudes' translation into Greek hexameters of the Latin Catonis Disticha, 7r Sententiae septem sapientum, 9r De Invidia, 10r register, 10v blank); AA-DD8 EE6 (AA1r Theognis's Sententiae elegiacae, CC5v Sententiae monostichi per Capita ex variis poetis, DD8r Aurea Carmina Pythagorae, EE1v Phocylides' Poema admonitorium, EE5v Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae de Christo Iesu, EE6v Differentia vocis); a-b8 c10 (a1r Hesiod's Theogonia, c2v Hesiod's Scutum Herculis); d-e8 (d1r Hesiod's Opera et dies, e7v register, e8r colophon: Impressum Venetiis characteribus ac studio Aldi Manucii Romani cum gratia &c. .M.CCCC.XCV. Mense februario, e8v list of Hesiodic contents). 140 leaves. First state, with uncorrected setting, of quires F (two outermost sheets) and G. Greek type 1:146 (text), roman types 2:114 (title) and 6:83 (letter, colophon, contents). 30 lines. 38 woodcut floral or interlaced headpieces printed from 8 blocks, 40 woodcut Greek initials (20 blocks) including capital E, which reappears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 (see lot 83), and one printed upside down. 18th-century English mottled calf, the sides panelled in gilt and blind, the centre panel plain calf, floral tool at the corners, spine gilt in compartments, red and blue stained edges, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Ravenna, Carthusians (17th-century inscription); 4th Duke of Grafton (inscription dated 1782); S. Hayes, bought in the Grafton sale at Evans on 6 June 1815 for 10 (pencil inscription); Beriah Botfield.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of twelve Theocritean idylls, Theognis, sentences of the Seven Sages, Hesiod's Theogony and Heracles' Shield; FIRST EDITION IN GREEK of Cato's distichs; second edition in Greek of eighteen Theocritean idylls and Hesiod's Works and Days (first published at Milan: Buono Accorsi, ca. 1480; Rogledi Manni 1005), also of the Pythagorean golden verses and Phocylides (first published in the Aldine Lascaris; HC 9924). EXTREMELY LARGE AND FINE COPY.
HC *15477; BMC V, 554 (IB. 24402-8); Goff T-144; IGI 9497; Sander 7235; Essling 888; Flodr 80 Theo. 1; Renouard 5.3.
Aldine 2° (307 x 205 mm). Collation: A-D8 E-G6 (A1r title in Greek and Latin, A1v Aldus's dedicatory letter to Battista Guarino, A2r Theocritus's eclogues, G5v Genus Theocriti, G6r De inventione bucolicorum, G6v blank); ZZ10 (1r Maximus Planudes' translation into Greek hexameters of the Latin Catonis Disticha, 7r Sententiae septem sapientum, 9r De Invidia, 10r register, 10v blank); AA-DD8 EE6 (AA1r Theognis's Sententiae elegiacae, CC5v Sententiae monostichi per Capita ex variis poetis, DD8r Aurea Carmina Pythagorae, EE1v Phocylides' Poema admonitorium, EE5v Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae de Christo Iesu, EE6v Differentia vocis); a-b8 c10 (a1r Hesiod's Theogonia, c2v Hesiod's Scutum Herculis); d-e8 (d1r Hesiod's Opera et dies, e7v register, e8r colophon: Impressum Venetiis characteribus ac studio Aldi Manucii Romani cum gratia &c. .M.CCCC.XCV. Mense februario, e8v list of Hesiodic contents). 140 leaves. First state, with uncorrected setting, of quires F (two outermost sheets) and G. Greek type 1:146 (text), roman types 2:114 (title) and 6:83 (letter, colophon, contents). 30 lines. 38 woodcut floral or interlaced headpieces printed from 8 blocks, 40 woodcut Greek initials (20 blocks) including capital E, which reappears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 (see lot 83), and one printed upside down. 18th-century English mottled calf, the sides panelled in gilt and blind, the centre panel plain calf, floral tool at the corners, spine gilt in compartments, red and blue stained edges, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Ravenna, Carthusians (17th-century inscription); 4th Duke of Grafton (inscription dated 1782); S. Hayes, bought in the Grafton sale at Evans on 6 June 1815 for 10 (pencil inscription); Beriah Botfield.
EDITIO PRINCEPS of twelve Theocritean idylls, Theognis, sentences of the Seven Sages, Hesiod's Theogony and Heracles' Shield; FIRST EDITION IN GREEK of Cato's distichs; second edition in Greek of eighteen Theocritean idylls and Hesiod's Works and Days (first published at Milan: Buono Accorsi, ca. 1480; Rogledi Manni 1005), also of the Pythagorean golden verses and Phocylides (first published in the Aldine Lascaris; HC 9924). EXTREMELY LARGE AND FINE COPY.
HC *15477; BMC V, 554 (IB. 24402-8); Goff T-144; IGI 9497; Sander 7235; Essling 888; Flodr 80 Theo. 1; Renouard 5.3.