Description
Varro (Marcus Terrentius) De lingua Latina, edited by Giulio Pomponio Leto, first edition, 83 ff., the first blank, 32 lines (variable), Roman type, initial spaces, the first with guide-letter, initial blank and some margins sympathetically repaired, occasional soiling or spotting, later vellum, [BMC V, 187; Goff V-95; HC 15857], [Venice], [Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria], [c.1471-1472].
⁂ A wide-margined copy of this rare philological work. Includes a prefatory letter from the editor to the Italian humanist and gastronomist Bartholomaeus Platina. Varro studied under the philologist Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus and later under the philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon.
Lot 200
Varro (Marcus Terrentius) De Lingua Latina, 1471.
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
Varro (Marcus Terrentius) De lingua Latina, edited by Giulio Pomponio Leto, first edition, 83 ff., the first blank, 32 lines (variable), Roman type, initial spaces, the first with guide-letter, initial blank and some margins sympathetically repaired, occasional soiling or spotting, later vellum, [BMC V, 187; Goff V-95; HC 15857], [Venice], [Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria], [c.1471-1472].
⁂ A wide-margined copy of this rare philological work. Includes a prefatory letter from the editor to the Italian humanist and gastronomist Bartholomaeus Platina. Varro studied under the philologist Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus and later under the philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon.
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