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Auction archive: Lot number 70

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c295-c215 BC) Argonautica, in Greek With...

Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$15,157 - US$20,210
Price realised:
£11,250
ca. US$18,947
Auction archive: Lot number 70

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c295-c215 BC) Argonautica, in Greek With...

Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$15,157 - US$20,210
Price realised:
£11,250
ca. US$18,947
Beschreibung:

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica , in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophocles and Theon of Alexandria (1st century A.D.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa,] 1496.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica , in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophocles and Theon of Alexandria (1st century A.D.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa,] 1496. Median 4º (233 x 165mm). Collation: a-? 8 ? 4 (a1r editor's introduction, a1v life of the author, a2r text with commentary surround, ?3r Greek colophon, ?3v-4 blank). 171 leaves (of 172, without final blank). Type: 5a,b:114Gk, 5c:111Gk. 33 lines of commentary. (Mostly marginal spotting throughout.) Late 18th-century green half morocco (spine head chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance : manuscript translation of the colophon in an early hand -- James Lewis Knight Bruce (1791-1866, judge; Roehampton bookplate). EDITIO PRINCEPS

Auction archive: Lot number 70
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
21 May 2014, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica , in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophocles and Theon of Alexandria (1st century A.D.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa,] 1496.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS (c.295-c.215 B.C.). Argonautica , in Greek. With the scholia of Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophocles and Theon of Alexandria (1st century A.D.). Edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: [Laurentius Francisci de Alopa,] 1496. Median 4º (233 x 165mm). Collation: a-? 8 ? 4 (a1r editor's introduction, a1v life of the author, a2r text with commentary surround, ?3r Greek colophon, ?3v-4 blank). 171 leaves (of 172, without final blank). Type: 5a,b:114Gk, 5c:111Gk. 33 lines of commentary. (Mostly marginal spotting throughout.) Late 18th-century green half morocco (spine head chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance : manuscript translation of the colophon in an early hand -- James Lewis Knight Bruce (1791-1866, judge; Roehampton bookplate). EDITIO PRINCEPS

Auction archive: Lot number 70
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
21 May 2014, London, King Street
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