AUCTION 58: A COLLECTION OF RARE AND INTERESTING BOOKS, FROM THE 15TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY
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A massive and varied collection of rare books and related material, ranging from 15th century incunabula and Reformation era Christian religious tomes, to 17th and 18th century scientific, philosophical, and medical texts, all the way to a First Edition of Einstein's Meaning of Relativity. Throughout this catalogue are swashbuckling adventures of the 18th and 19th centuries, Jewish and Islamic manuscripts, maps and atlases, and grand histories, among many other interesting subjects. Truly something for every type of collector.
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1568 COMEDIES BY TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS VELLUM BOUND 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE


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1568 COMEDIES BY TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS VELLUM BOUND 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE

Comoedie viginti:

post Joannis Sambuci diligentiam, cum veteribus & novissimis codicibus collatae...

Basileae, Ex officina Hervagiana, per Eusebiu[m] Episcopium; 1568

First Sambucus edition by Celio Secondo Curione.

Work containing 20 comedies by Titus Maccius Plautus.

Ref. Graesse V, 327 ; VD16 P 3391

Size 4.5 by 6.5"

[16] + 813 pp.

Full vellum binding, boards with blind tooled design in the center and flower ornaments in corners on both covers,

spine with 5 ribs, speckled edges.

A few spots on front cover and spine, upper capital slightly torn

Some toning and foxing

Text in Latin

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.

He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.

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