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Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

LASCARIS, CONSTANTINE.

printer

Aldus Manutius the Elder

Place

Venice

Publication

1512

Description

The Leo Olschki-Erich Wronker Copy

references

Adams L-228; Renouard (A) 58.1

summary

Third and most complete edition of the first book off the Aldine Press. An influential Greek grammar that helped further Greek studies in the West. Bound with Aldus’s short exposition on the Hebrew alphabet with Hebrew font probably cut by Francesco Griffo of the Soncino Press. See A. Marx, Hebrew Type in Non-Hebrew Books in: Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944) p.311

ff.273, 20. Lacking title, Greek and Latin signatures interleaved. Marginal browning in places, couple worm-holes, marginalia. Later vellum, rubbed. 4to

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