[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1st ed. of Terentius Afer edited by Matthias Berg (Leipzig: 1574)

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Terentius Afer, Publius. COMOEDIAE SEX Accurata Castigatione et
Explicationibus Eruditis Illustrate... Nunc Primum Singulari
Diligentiae Editae... Matthiae Bergii. Accesserunt Etiam Castigationes
et Annotationes Ioachimi Camerarij, Iohannis Riuii, Georgii Fabricii, &
Francisci Fabricii... (Leipzig: Andreas Schneider. 1574). Sm. thick
8vo. 3 parts in 1, each with a title page. 512,(8)(including the final
blank); 206;(207)-576pp. Indices. Woodcut printer's device on each
title-page, the first 2 are hand illuminated. Cont. roll-tooled
pigskin, hand lettered spine, a bit soiled. With the original brass
clasps & catches intact.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The rare first edition, edited by Matthias Berg (1536-1592), of the
Comedies of Terrence. Though the commentaries by the other writers had
been published separately, Berg brings them all together for the first
time and has augmented them considerably. VD 16, T476; Brunet V, 715;
Adams T366.

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