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EURIPIDES.
Tragoediae XIX.
Greek text, edited by Willem Canter. [32], 809,
[38]
pages, including blanks e7-8. 16mo, 119x73 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin
over wooden boards with Apostle roll on covers, brass catches and clasps; occasional toning.
Contemporary signature of Martin Neiffert on title; 19th-century bookplate of Justin
Harvey Smith, with an inscription to him from L. P. Rosenthal of Munich dated 1878;
20
th-century bookplate of H. Marion Soliday.
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571
[500/750]
FIRST PLANTIN EDITION
,
and the first edited by the Dutch scholar Willem Canter (1542-
75). “
Canter’s edition dramatically influenced the course of Euripidean criticism in that he was
the first to distinguish and mark the metrical responsions of the choruses, which had been printed
in haphazard fashion in all previous editions”—E. K. Schreiber, Catalogue 37, item 63.
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EUSTRATIUS; et al.
Commentaria in libros decem Aristotelis de moribus
ad Nicomachum
[
with the full text of Aristotle]. Greek text. [2], 189 leaves; lacks final
leaf with Aldine device on verso. Folio, 296x196 mm, early 19th-century
1
/
2
russia gilt
(
bound uniformly with lots 6 and 114); partly cropped early Greek marginalia on around a
dozen leaves toward beginning, dampstaining in upper margins toward end.
(
Venice: Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea of Asola, July 1536)
[2,000/3,000]
ONLY ALDINE EDITION
of a collection of scholia on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by a
Byzantine author (circa 1050-1120). Renouard, page 116(6); New UCLA 282;
Hoffmann I, 290.
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GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO.
De comitiali morbo libri III.
[4], 99, [17]
pages,
including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 4to, 191x136 mm, early 19th-century
1
/
2
sprinkled calf with morocco lettering piece; title soiled with short clean tear repaired on
verso, light soiling on last page. Armorial bookplates of Drs. Cornelis Hendrik à Roy
(1750-1833)
and John Deakin Heaton (1817-80).
Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1561
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of an important early work on epilepsy. Gabuccini “stressed the natural charac-
ter of epilepsy against all popular and theological assumptions”—Temkin, The Falling
Sickness (1971), page 144. Renouard, page 182(3); New UCLA 645; Durling 1740.
