ISOCRATES (pseudo-). Praecepta ad Demonicum. Translated from the Greek into Latin by Rodolphus Agricola. [Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, ca 1495].
ISOCRATES (pseudo-). Praecepta ad Demonicum. Translated from the Greek into Latin by Rodolphus Agricola. [Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, ca 1495].

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ISOCRATES (pseudo-). Praecepta ad Demonicum. Translated from the Greek into Latin by Rodolphus Agricola. [Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, ca 1495].

4o (205 x 142 mm). Collation: a-c4. 12 leaves. 18 lines (leaded text, with interlinear glosses). Gothic types 5:180 (title) and 8:94 (title and text), 40(? glosses). Two capital spaces, red Lombard initials and paragraph marks. (Some browning, small repair to blank margin of last leaf.) Modern half morocco. Provenance: early ink marginalia -- Bibliotheca Richteriana (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.

FIRST EDITION. Heinrich Knoblochtzer, who appears to have left Strassburg about 1484-5, became the first printer of Heidelberg in about 1485. BMC III,673 (IA.12997); BSB-Ink. I-648; H *9316; Pr 3148; Goff I-215.

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