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PHILELPHUS, Franciscus (1398-1481). Orationes cum quibusdam aliis eiusdem operibus. - ARISTOTELES. Rhetorica, translated by Philelphus. - PLUTARCHUS. Apophthegmata, translated by Philelphus. - GALENUS. Introductorium ad medicinam principiis, translated by Georgius Valla. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 28 March 1491. [Bound with:] SOLINUS, Caius Julius (fl. 3rd century). Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi. Venice: [Guilelmus Anima Mea, Tridinensis], 13 January 1493.
2 works in one volume, super-chancery 4° (217 x 155m). Roman and (in first work) Greek types, initial spaces with guide-letter. (Dampstaining, heavier at end, occasional browning or spotting.) Contemporary Italian half brown goatskin over wooden boards, blindstamped with repeat palmette tool, two fore-edge clasps, flyleaves from a 15th-century manuscript on vellum (clasp leather renewed, missing one catchplate, a little scuffed and stained, slight loss at spine ends).
Third edition of Philelphus. It is accompanied by Galen's introduction to the principles of medicine, whose first appearance in print had been in the first (Milan: 1484) edition of Philelphus' orations. The second work in the volume is Solinus' 'wonders of the world', derived from the natural history of Pliny and the geography of Pomponius Mela. I: HC *12923; BMC V, 431; Klebs 403.3; Goff P-609. II: HC *14881; BMC V, 412; Klebs 922.8; Goff S-621.
2 works in one volume, super-chancery 4° (217 x 155m). Roman and (in first work) Greek types, initial spaces with guide-letter. (Dampstaining, heavier at end, occasional browning or spotting.) Contemporary Italian half brown goatskin over wooden boards, blindstamped with repeat palmette tool, two fore-edge clasps, flyleaves from a 15th-century manuscript on vellum (clasp leather renewed, missing one catchplate, a little scuffed and stained, slight loss at spine ends).
Third edition of Philelphus. It is accompanied by Galen's introduction to the principles of medicine, whose first appearance in print had been in the first (Milan: 1484) edition of Philelphus' orations. The second work in the volume is Solinus' 'wonders of the world', derived from the natural history of Pliny and the geography of Pomponius Mela. I: HC *12923; BMC V, 431; Klebs 403.3; Goff P-609. II: HC *14881; BMC V, 412; Klebs 922.8; Goff S-621.
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