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ABRAVANEL, JUDAH.]
Dialog[h]i di Amore, composti per Leone medico,
di Natione Hebreo
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pseud.]. Aldine woodcut device on title and at end. [2], 261 [i. e.,
241], [1]
leaves, including final colophon leaf. 8vo, 135x89 mm, 19th-century
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calf, spine
faded; cropped marginalia in Italian throughout, inscription imperfectly washed out of title.
Venice: Sons of Aldus, 1541
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
of a metaphysical treatise on love, one of the most influential philo-
sophical works of the Renaissance, originally published in 1535 in Rome. Renouard, page
123(10);
New UCLA 303; EJ II, 110.
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AESCHINES; and DEMOSTHENES.
Orationes quatuor inter se contrariae.
Greek text. [4], 75, [1]; 112 leaves, including blank K8. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 157x104
mm, 17th(?)-century red morocco gilt-tooled to all-over grillwork pattern with center car-
touche enclosing indistinct painted arms, minor surface wear on covers, top and bottom
spine compartments restored; minor worming through first few text leaves (not impairing
legibility) and blank rear endleaves, title lightly soiled.
Venice: Federico Torresani, 1549
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST TORRESANI EDITION
of the speeches of the rival 4th-century B.C. Athenian politi-
cians and orators, bound imitating the style used on Aldine imprints in the library of Diego
Hurtado de Mendoza (1506-75), Spanish ambassador to Venice from 1539 to 1546.
Renouard, page 145(5); New UCLA 1037; Hoffmann I, 24; cf. Hobson, Renaissance Book
Collecting, pages 94 and 97.
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