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PLATO. [Apologia Socratis and Crito.] Antwort und entschuldigung deß aller weysesten Hayden Socratis auff unwarhafft anklage und bezüg Aniti. Translated by Jakob Schenck. Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1535.
4° (185 x 144mm). Collation: A-J4 K6. Title with woodcut of Socrates being visited in prison, verso with woodcut dedicatee's arms, woodcut initials. (Lacking A4 and final blank, A1-B1 neatly strengthened at inner margin, some spotting, mainly marginal.) 19th-century half purple morocco (spine worn, rubbed). Provenance: Monastery at Roth (stamp and inscription on title); Fr. C. Hermann (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of Plato's Apologia Socratis and Crito, and first edition in German of any of Plato's works, with Marsilio Ficino's foreword to Crito, translated by Schenck. Rare: Worstbrock 264; not in BL STC German or Adams.
4° (185 x 144mm). Collation: A-J4 K6. Title with woodcut of Socrates being visited in prison, verso with woodcut dedicatee's arms, woodcut initials. (Lacking A4 and final blank, A1-B1 neatly strengthened at inner margin, some spotting, mainly marginal.) 19th-century half purple morocco (spine worn, rubbed). Provenance: Monastery at Roth (stamp and inscription on title); Fr. C. Hermann (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of Plato's Apologia Socratis and Crito, and first edition in German of any of Plato's works, with Marsilio Ficino's foreword to Crito, translated by Schenck. Rare: Worstbrock 264; not in BL STC German or Adams.