PLATO (c.427-347 B.C .). Opera . With commentary by Proclus. Basel: Johann Valderus, 1534. 2 parts in 3 volumes, 2º (320 x 206mm). With the final blank in part 1, woodcut initials. (A little waterstaining in part 2.) 18th-century morocco, gilt spines with crowned bull’s head in 5 compartments (some joints a little worn). Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek and Latin – Antonius Carpentarius (late 17th-century signature on title).
PLATO (c.427-347 B.C .). Opera . With commentary by Proclus. Basel: Johann Valderus, 1534. 2 parts in 3 volumes, 2º (320 x 206mm). With the final blank in part 1, woodcut initials. (A little waterstaining in part 2.) 18th-century morocco, gilt spines with crowned bull’s head in 5 compartments (some joints a little worn). Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek and Latin – Antonius Carpentarius (late 17th-century signature on title). Second edition in Greek, preceded only by the Aldine 1513 edition, and containing THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SCHOLIA OF PROCLUS (412-485), the celebrated neoplatonist and lifelong pagan. Proclus also edited, among others, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid and Zeno. 'That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable. Plato’s central conception of a universe of ideas, Perfect Types, of which material objects are imperfect forms, and his ethical code based on action according to human nature, developed by education, which represents the authority of the State, fitted in as well with the philosophical, religious and political thought of Western Europe in the fifteenth century, striving to free itself from the shackles of scholasticism (PMM). Adams P1437 and P2139; Hoffmann III, p.118; cf. PMM 27.
PLATO (c.427-347 B.C .). Opera . With commentary by Proclus. Basel: Johann Valderus, 1534. 2 parts in 3 volumes, 2º (320 x 206mm). With the final blank in part 1, woodcut initials. (A little waterstaining in part 2.) 18th-century morocco, gilt spines with crowned bull’s head in 5 compartments (some joints a little worn). Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek and Latin – Antonius Carpentarius (late 17th-century signature on title).
PLATO (c.427-347 B.C .). Opera . With commentary by Proclus. Basel: Johann Valderus, 1534. 2 parts in 3 volumes, 2º (320 x 206mm). With the final blank in part 1, woodcut initials. (A little waterstaining in part 2.) 18th-century morocco, gilt spines with crowned bull’s head in 5 compartments (some joints a little worn). Provenance : some early marginalia in Greek and Latin – Antonius Carpentarius (late 17th-century signature on title). Second edition in Greek, preceded only by the Aldine 1513 edition, and containing THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SCHOLIA OF PROCLUS (412-485), the celebrated neoplatonist and lifelong pagan. Proclus also edited, among others, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid and Zeno. 'That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable. Plato’s central conception of a universe of ideas, Perfect Types, of which material objects are imperfect forms, and his ethical code based on action according to human nature, developed by education, which represents the authority of the State, fitted in as well with the philosophical, religious and political thought of Western Europe in the fifteenth century, striving to free itself from the shackles of scholasticism (PMM). Adams P1437 and P2139; Hoffmann III, p.118; cf. PMM 27.
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