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Demetrius, Phalereus. De Elocutione [graece], edited by Pietro Vettori, first separate edition, the second Giunta edition, title with woodcut printer's device and a variant to verso of G1, woodcut historiated initial, final 2 ff. misbound within preliminaries (the last blank), small ink stamp to title, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 16155], 8vo, Florence, heirs of [Filippo] Giunta, 1552.
*** Rare at auction. A study of classical rhetoric by the last great exponent of Attic oratory. The author is best known as the first to propose the idea of founding a library at Alexandria to King Ptolemy I of Egypt.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/1d6243c8-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/23df2396-2d91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "43
Demetrius, Phalereus. De Elocutione [graece], edited by Pietro Vettori, first separate edition, the second Giunta edition, title with woodcut printer's device and a variant to verso of G1, woodcut historiated initial, final 2 ff. misbound within preliminaries (the last blank), small ink stamp to title, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 16155], 8vo, Florence, heirs of [Filippo] Giunta, 1552.
*** Rare at auction. A study of classical rhetoric by the last great exponent of Attic oratory. The author is best known as the first to propose the idea of founding a library at Alexandria to King Ptolemy I of Egypt.")
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Demetrius, Phalereus. De Elocutione [graece], edited by Pietro Vettori, first separate edition, the second Giunta edition, title with woodcut printer's device and a variant to verso of G1, woodcut historiated initial, final 2 ff. misbound within preliminaries (the last blank), small ink stamp to title, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 16155], 8vo, Florence, heirs of [Filippo] Giunta, 1552.
⁂ Rare at auction. A study of classical rhetoric by the last great exponent of Attic oratory. The author is best known as the first to propose the idea of founding a library at Alexandria to King Ptolemy I of Egypt.
Description
Demetrius, Phalereus. De Elocutione [graece], edited by Pietro Vettori, first separate edition, the second Giunta edition, title with woodcut printer's device and a variant to verso of G1, woodcut historiated initial, final 2 ff. misbound within preliminaries (the last blank), small ink stamp to title, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 16155], 8vo, Florence, heirs of [Filippo] Giunta, 1552.
⁂ Rare at auction. A study of classical rhetoric by the last great exponent of Attic oratory. The author is best known as the first to propose the idea of founding a library at Alexandria to King Ptolemy I of Egypt.
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