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Auction archive: Lot number 3

PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia [tr. J. Serranus], H. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium , [Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578, 3 vols., 2°, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double column, Estienne device on titles, woodcu...

Auction 18.12.1992
18 Dec 1992
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$775 - US$1,241
Price realised:
£2,640
ca. US$4,095
Auction archive: Lot number 3

PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia [tr. J. Serranus], H. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium , [Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578, 3 vols., 2°, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double column, Estienne device on titles, woodcu...

Auction 18.12.1992
18 Dec 1992
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$775 - US$1,241
Price realised:
£2,640
ca. US$4,095
Beschreibung:

PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia [tr. J. Serranus], H. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium , [Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578, 3 vols., 2°, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double column, Estienne device on titles, woodcut initials and headpieces (occasional light browning), late 18th-century straight-grained red morocco gilt by Henry Walther with his label in the first volume, covers with gilt rule and inner gilt panel with semi-circles at corners, gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands, titled in three (extremities somewhat rubbed, lower cover of vol. I slightly scuffed, mild dent in upper cover of vol. III), gilt inner dentelles in Greek key pattern, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [Adams P1439] Provenance : Mar. Ant. Morgan (18th-century ownership inscriptions); Joseph Neeld; John Lehman (bookplates); William Salloch (bookseller's label).

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
18 Dec 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

PLATO. Opera quae extant omnia [tr. J. Serranus], H. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium , [Geneva], excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1578, 3 vols., 2°, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double column, Estienne device on titles, woodcut initials and headpieces (occasional light browning), late 18th-century straight-grained red morocco gilt by Henry Walther with his label in the first volume, covers with gilt rule and inner gilt panel with semi-circles at corners, gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands, titled in three (extremities somewhat rubbed, lower cover of vol. I slightly scuffed, mild dent in upper cover of vol. III), gilt inner dentelles in Greek key pattern, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [Adams P1439] Provenance : Mar. Ant. Morgan (18th-century ownership inscriptions); Joseph Neeld; John Lehman (bookplates); William Salloch (bookseller's label).

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
18 Dec 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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