EPICTETE. Epicteti enchiridium una cum cebetis... - Lot 19 - Ader

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EPICTETE. Epicteti enchiridium una cum cebetis... - Lot 19 - Ader
EPICTETE. Epicteti enchiridium una cum cebetis thebani tabula Græc. & Lat. Delphis Batavorum [Delft] : Gerardi de Jager, 1683. - In-8, stiff parchment, framed with cold fillets, cold fleur-de-lys at the corners and gilt arms in the center of the boards, smooth spine, spotted edges (period binding). Second edition published by the Dutch philologist Abraham van Berkel (1630-1688), after the one of 1670, of the Greek and Latin version of the Manual of Epictetus and of the Table of Cebes of Thebes, with scholarly notes by Hieronymus Wolf, Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), Johannes Caselius (1533-1613) or Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716). The edition is illustrated with an engraved title-frontispiece and a large folding plate showing the border separating the world of wisdom from that of the vulgar. Beautiful copy in a contemporary binding with unidentified arms, from the collection of Philippe Le Bas (1794-1860), hellenist, archaeologist, president of the Institute of France and tutor of Napoleon III. Some soiling to the binding, missing the links. Provenance: Philippe Le Bas, with red stamp on the title. - Librairie Labitte, with label on first back cover.
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