[Rarebooks] FS: Spurious pseudoplatonic text attributed to Xenocrates. Augsburg: 1515

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Xenocrates, Chalcedonius. DE MORTE [Translated and edited by M. Ficino]. (Augsburg: Sylvanus Othmar. 23 July 1515). 4to. ff.(7). Lacking the final blank. Title within an attractive black-on-white woodcut border. One decorated initial. Modern attractive blindstamped half vellum. "Xenocrates" blackstamped on front cover.	$1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first separate edition of this spurious pseudoplatonic text attributed by some to Xenocrates (396-314 BC), a pupil of Plato, friend of Aristotle, and scholarch of the Academy from 339-314, and by others to Aeschines Socraticus (Xenocrates' master before he attached himself to Plato). It first appeared in the Aldine Iamblichus of 1497 and subsequently in many editions of the DELLA RELIGIONE CHRISTIANA by Marsiglio Ficino (this little work's translator), and in most of Plato's works where he is styled Axiochus. VD 16 P3318 (under Plato). BL German STC p. 930 (under "Xenocrates, the Philosopher"). Not in Adams.


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