Arrian of Nicomedia (Flavius Arrianus). De rebus gestis Alexandri regis. Translation from Greek into Latin by Bartolomeo Facio.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,400

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author

(SONCINO PRESS)

printer

Hieronymi Soncinatis (i.e. Gershom Soncino)

Place

Pesaro

Publication

1508

Description

FIRST LATIN EDITION. Marginal notations in an early hand.

references

Adams A-2011; Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino 33.

summary

Arrian’s second-century Anabasis of Alexander the Great, narrating in seven books Alexander’s military campaigns. Added here is an eighth book consisting of Arrian’s Indike, describing India and relating the voyage of Alexander’s friend, Nearchus, in the Persian Gulf. In his preface, the editor, Sigismundus Golphus praises the Jewish printer Hieronymi Soncino for his skill: He is “second to none in printing Hebrew and Chaldaic, and quite experienced in printing Latin”.

ff. 100. Few stains, some foxing, neat marginal repairs, signature excised in ink on title. 19th-century gilt- and blind-tooled straight-grain morocco, rubbed, spine sunned. Sm. folio. Housed in Valmadonna-custom fitted slip-case.

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