Lot no. 116
PLATO (428-348 BC). Lot of two sixteenth-century editions of Plato in Marsilio Ficino's successful Latin translation. Omnia... opera tralatione Marsilij Ficini emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei. Venice: Scoto, 1570. Folio (330 x 230mm). Woodcut printer's device to title-page and colophon, woodcut initials, text in two columns (foxing and a few light dampstains, small wormtrack occasionally affecting the text in the first few quires). Contemporary full vellum (partially detached, losses to spine). Provenance: Cappellari Joannes (ownership inscription to title-page) [IN LOT WITH:] Omnia... opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei. Basel: Froben, 1539. Folio (330 x 230mm). Woodcut printer's device to title-page and colophon, woodcut initials (small wormholes and tracks to first and final leaves, light but at times widespread dampstains to final leaves, occasional foxing). Full vellum, red edges (losses to upper cover, binding not firm, worn). Provenance: several contemporary annotations. (2)
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07/15/2025
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