Author: Maximus, Tyrius.
Title: Sermones sive Disputationes XLI.
Description: Geneva: ex officina H. Estienne, 1557. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes; one in Greek and the other in Latin. I: [4]ff. 263 pages; II: [8]ff. 320 pages. *4, a8-q8, r4, A8-X8. Eighteenth-century boards. Schreiber 141a & 141b; Renouard 116, no. 2; Moeckli, Les Livres Imprimés a Genève de 1550 a 1600, p. 33; Adams M939 & M940; NUC 371.210; Hoffmann, Lexicon Bibliographicum Scriptorum Graecorum 2.584, 587; Brunet III, 1551-1552; Dibdin, Greek& Latin Classics, vol. 2, p. 232. Editio princeps of the Greek text, published by Henri Estienne. The Latin text was first translated by Cosimo Pazzi and published in 1517. In this second edition of the Latin text, Estienne notes that he has corrected many errors in Pazzi's translation. From the library of Otto Jahn, with his bookplate. Otto Jahn was a German classical scholar who lived around the end of the eighteenth century. A very good set. Good.

Keywords: Estienne Printing


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