[Rarebooks] Diogenes Laertes Lives of the Philosophers 1602

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration;
Laertius, Diogenes. LA VITE DE FILOSOFI CAVATE DA LAERTIO ET ALTRI NELLE QUALI VI SONO SENTENZE, ET DETTI NOTABILI, ADORNATE DI BELLISME, ET VAGHE FIGURE DI GIOSEPPE SALVATI... Venice: Giouachino Brugnolo, 1602. A new enlarged edition, Small quarto. Contemporary full vellum. Seventy numbered leaves. 8, 140pp.  Illustrated. Woodcut printer’s device on the title page. Ninety woodcuts, two devices and eighty-eight cuts of subjects. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Very good. Some foxing at fore-edges. Boards a bit splayed. Some wear to spine label in burgundy. A nice copy. British bookseller’s catalogue entry affixed at base of the front paste-down. “W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. Cambridge England. Catalogue 351. 10s 6d.”  $2000.00


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