[Rarebooks] FS: Two 16th cent. works of Pythagoras, in Greek & Latin, bound together

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Pythagoras. ...HIEROCLIS PHILOSOPHI COMMENTARIUS in Aurea Pythagoreorum 
Carmina Joan. Curterio Interprete... Paris: Nicolaum Nivellium. 1583. 12mo. 
xxiv,247(i.e. 347),(1)pp. Index. Title and text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut 
device on title. BOUND WITH: Pythagoras. AUREA PYTHAGOREORUM Carmina Latine 
Conversa... Auctore T. Marcilio. 1585. Paris: Nicolaum Nivellium 1585. 
(2),11,(11),90,(6)pp. Greek & Latin. With both blank leaves, e4 and H4. 17th century 
calf, neatly rebacked, with red morocco label.     $1,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
I: Although both the BL and Adams record this work under Pythagoras, it is 
also sometimes found under "Hierocles of Alexandria": this is the first 
printing of the Greek text of his commentary on the "Golden Verses" of 
Pythagoras.   The Latin translation and editing is by Joannes Curterius. Graesse III, 
p. 272 (under Hierocles). See Adams P2312. BL French STC p. 368.
II: The first edition of this Latin translation and commentary by Theodorus 
Marcilius (Theodore Marcile) on the Golden Verses. Adams P2314. BL French 
STC p. 368. Graesse V, p. 516.
These two works are found separately as well as bound together. Certainly 
after 1585 the publisher would have offered these two complimentary texts 
together.

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