Xenophon. Omnia quae extant operis, 2 parts in 1, first complete Aldine edition, collation: *⁴, A-L⁸; ?-?⁸, ?⁶ (fol. G2 signed ii, fol. H1 unsigned), [4], 87; [119] leaves (with misnumbering), complete with blank leaves L8 and ?1, Greek and roman type, text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf, blank spaces for capitals, with printed guide letters, a few pale spots and fingermarks, some marginalia in Greek, 17th-century sprinkled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, edges speckled red, spine ends repaired, folio (306 x 209mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April 1525.

⁂ The first complete edition of Xenophon issued by the Aldine press, edited by Gian Francesco d'Asola, son of Aldus' father-in-law, Andrea Torresano.

Alongside Xenophon's short, and still then unpublished, De Atheniensium re publica and De vectigalibus, the Aldine edition of 1525 contains the Agesilao, the text of which had been in the past erroneously attributed - as Torresano states in his preliminary address to readers - to Plutarch, and therefore included in previous editions of the Plutarchean Vitae. The volume also contains Xenophon's Hellenica, a work which had already been published by Aldus Manutius in October 1503.

Provenance: from the library of St. Maria Incoronata, Padua (ownership inscription 'Biblioth. Collegij S. Mariae Coronatae Papie[nsis]', and old small stamp on title).

Literature: Adams X4; STC Italian 738; Renouard Alde, 100.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 229; Cataldi Palau 94.