Auction 76 · Lot 236

Libri Antiguitatum * Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $100

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

PHILO JUDAEUS.

printer

Adam Petri

Place

Basle

Publication

1527

Description

Five works in one. FIRST LATIN EDITION. Printers’ device on title and repeated on verso of final unnumbered leaf (cf. Yaari, Printers’ Marks no. 11). Initial letters within historiated woodcut vignettes by Hans Holbein.

references

Adams P-1031.

summary

Group of five works by the Jewish philosopher of antiquity, Philo of Alexandria. The most notable text is Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin - Questions and Answers on Genesis, a work in the form of a Hellenistic commentary, wherein each paragraph is headed by an exegetic question, answered by a short literal and lengthy allegorical explanation. The other works are digests of Philo’s writings. BOUND WITH: Sedulius Scotus. In Omnes Epistolas Pauli Collectaneum. First Edition. Basle, H. Petri, 1527.

pp. (8), 142. Light wear. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, scuffed. Folio.

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