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Lot 08181 |

"Ξενοφώντος Κύρου Παιδείας βιβλία τέτταρα Α’. Β’. Γ’. Δ’. / Xenophontis Cyri paediae libri quatuor priores” Paris, Chr. Wechel, 1538 [BOUND WITH] "Ξενοφώντος Κύρου παιδείας βιβλία τέτταρα Ε’.Ζ’.Η’.Θ’ /  Xenophontis Cyri paediae libri quatuor posteriors”, Paris: Chr. Wechel, 1539. 8vo, pp.3-126, 3-139. Text entirely in Greek. Woodcut historiated Greek initials & printer’s devise on title pages & last sheet. The Second Separate Printing of the Greek text of Xenophons Cyropaedia, a popular text in Renaissance and seventeenth-century classrooms. The work was separately printed for the first time at Louvain, in 1527 (Hoffmann III, 581). Part I consists of the first four books, and part II of the last four. Handwritten contemporary notes (possibly student of the time) in Latin on first sheets margins. Water-stain throughout, more evident at pp.109-118 of first book & last sheets of second book. Contemporary binding: full leather, spine with raised bands & blind-stamped decorations in gilt, reddish edges, lrubbed along edges & joints.

STARTING PRICE  €580

SOLD // €580.00


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