[Rarebooks] OFFER: FIRST LATIN PRINTING OF SOPHOCLES' TRAGEDIES.

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SOPHOCLIS TRAGOEDIAE OMNES / SOPHOCLES. NUNC PRIMUM LATIN AD VERBUM FACT ; 
AC SCHOLIJS QUIBUSDAM ILLUSTRAT: ioanne baptista gabia [i.e. Gabio] 
veronensi interprete.  Gabio, giovanni battista[translator, editor]: 
Venetiis, apvd Io. Baptistam Burgofrancho Papiensem, 1543. description: 187 
l. [i.e. 374 Pp.]; 16 cm. Latin  translation of the works of Sophocles, 
includes: ajax flagellifer, electra, oedipus tyrannus, antigone, oedipus in 
colono, trachiniae, philoctetes. note(s): signatures: a-z8, aa4./ Engraved 
vignette on t.p. And final leaf. This is the first publication of the works 
of Sophocles in Latin. It is also the first publication of Sophocles with 
commentaries since the earlier editions of  i.e., Aldus, 1502 and Hagenau, 
1534, were published without Scholiae. The texts are printed in italic 
type, but the notes are printed in Roman. OCLC notes 8 Locs. in the USA 
[STF, YUS, MNU, NGU, UPM, CGU, HHG, VA@] Graesse 6, P. 444, BL STC Italy, 
P. 634, not in Adams. Near Fine, clean copy. BOUND WITH ARIAN; NICOLAUS 
GERBEM Ed. And author of prefatory text [in Latin]: ARRIANOU PERI 
ALEXANDROU ANABASEOS HISTORIAM BIBLIA OKTO/ ARRIANI DE EXPEDITIONE, SIVE, 
REBUS GESTIS ALEXANDRI MACEDONUM REGIS LIBRI OCTO, nuper & reperti, & qum 
diligentissim in lucem editi.  Basileae : In officina Roberti Winter, 1539. 
Originally published in two volumes, the first volume the original Greek, 
the second in Latin. [Up.] a-z A-R8. This is the first volume only. 
Arrian's most important work, a narrative of Alexander's conquests using 
Xenophon's Anabasis as a model. 16 cm. (8vo) Graesse, I, 227; Legrand, 
Bibliographie hellenique,; v. III, 388; Adams; A2009: OCLC l3 Locs. in the 
USA [NYP,  CNH, STF, CUS, CGU, VQE, NYP, PAN, NDD, NJR, NTE, YUS, SC2]. The 
original calf binding is very worn and much wormed. Originally a rectangle 
of haloed heads was found on each board. The Sophocles has the slightest 
hint of pinholes in a few leaves and nothing more. The Arrian does have a 
significant worm loss, however almost the only letters taken were those in 
the catch phrase, and most of the worming is in blank space. The bottoms of 
the letters in the last line in some pages, near the catch phrase are also 
gone. P4 to the end are involved, but only after P8 are the catchwords 
interfered with. One of the two metal clasps has been repaired and 
replaced, the other is lacking. The verso of the last leaf bears a 
pictorial woodcut printer's device. The binding is solid and interesting, 
but not beautiful.  $3250.00

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