[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of German scholar Sixt Birck's commentary on Cicero. Basel: 1550

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Birck, Sixt. ...IN M. T. CICERONIS LIBROS III. DE NATURA DEORUM & PARADOXA, Commentarii, Multa ac Varia Eruditione Referti, Nuncque Primum in Lucem Editi... Basel: Joannem Oporinum. (1550). 8vo. 2 parts in 1, each with a title page. (28),361,(9);55,(1)pp. With blank A4 and with 4 folding printed tables, complete. Text with some woodcuts. Cont. blind tooled paneled calf . An Oxford binding (tools identified in Pearson's OXFORD BOOKBINDING 1500-1600). With medieval text manuscript end leaves (front and back) used as binder's waste. A very nice copy.    $1,000.00
The first edition. Sixt Birck (1501-1554) was an important German humanist, scholar & playwright. This uncommon work is a critical study of Cicero texts "De Natura Deorum" and "Paradoxa Stoicorum." VD 16, B5565. Adams B847 (under "Betuleius, Xystus").

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