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GEORGE of Trebizond; et al.
Continentur hoc volumine Georgii Trapezuntii
Rhetoricorum libri V
[
and other texts]. [4], 161, [1] leaves, including final leaf with
Aldine device on verso. Folio, 299x204 mm, 18th-century mottled calf with morocco let-
tering piece; occasional light marginal dampstaining, light soiling and faded 17th-century
inscription on title; red edges. Bookplate of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April 1523)
[2,000/3,000]
ONLY ALDINE EDITION
of the first comprehensive Renaissance treatise on rhetoric, notable for
its innovative use of Greek sources, originally published circa 1472 and here reprinted with
related writings by Greek and Roman authors. Renouard, page 97(2); New UCLA 220;
Contemporaries of Erasmus III, 341. George (1395-1472) was a Cretan émigré scholar and,
with Cardinal Bessarion, one of the principal antagonists in the mid-15th-century controversy
in Greek humanist circles over Platonic versus Aristotelian philosophy (see lot 20).
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GILLES, NICOLE.
Les Annales et Croniques de France depuis la Destruc-
tion de Troye, iusques au temps du Roy Loys unzieme . . . imprimees
nouvellement . . . & additionees.
14
woodcut text illustrations; 6 full-page woodcut
historiated genealogical tables; woodcut floriated and criblé initials throughout. [6], 130;
[6], 151, [1]
leaves, including final blank. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 318x205 mm, 20th-cen-
tury
1
/
2
calf, boards covered with leaves from an unidentified incunable; scattered
dampstains, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, small piece torn from top of final
blank.
Paris: Jean Ruelle, 1557
[1,000/2,000]
Scarce edition of a chronicle of French history from the destruction of Troy to the reign of Louis
XI, originally published in 1492 and here edited with continuations to 1557 by Denis
Sauvage de Fontenelles. Pettegree, Walsby, & Wilkinson 22905 locate copies at Troyes,
Cambridge, and Moscow; this edition not in Potthast, NUC, or OCLC.
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