[Rarebooks] FS: Pindar. The first Greek book printed in Rome (August 13, 1515)

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Pindar. [Title in Greek] OLYMPIA, PYTHIA, NEMEA, ISTHMIA... (Rome: 
Zacharias Callierges for Cornelio Benigno. August 13, 1515). 4to. ff.239 (of 240), 
lacking one of the two internal blanks. Title page with 2 woodcut devices and 
final leaf (verso) with woodcut device. Two leaves (the first text leaf of 
Olympia, and of Pythia) printed in red & black. Old calf, neatly rebacked, 
spine with blind tooled ornaments and red morocco label. Title page and text 
with some old faded soiling. Repairs to the final gathering: leaves P1, P3 
and P4 have been re-margined at the bottom of the leaf, with the final 3 or 4 
lines of type filled in with very neat old manuscript type facsimile. Three 
other leaves in the final gathering have small repairs to the blank bottom 
inner margin. Housed in a brown cloth folding case with morocco spine label. 
$7,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the first Greek book printed at Rome and is the first printing of 
the extensive Greek Scholia to Pindar. It is the second edition in the 
original Greek of the text proper, but "based on a manuscript more faithful to the 
original." (Staikos, p. 413) than the Aldine 1513. Adams P1220 (noting 3 
variants). Staikos, CHARTA OF GREEK PRINTING p. 413-414.

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