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PLINO THE YOUNG

Cai Plinii Secundi Epistolae. Adjetae Notae et emendat…

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PLINO THE YOUNG Cai Plinii Secundi Epistolae. Adjetae Notae et emendationes hac tertia editione factae locupletiores. Auctore Claud. Minoe, Iurisc. Huic editioni accessere in eundem Plinium Isaaci Casauboni Notae Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1608. 2 parts in one large volume in-12, full morocco, gilt decoration with fanfare, arms in the center of the plates surmounted by a mitre and a crosier, surrounded by a motto. Gilded edges. 36 ff. including title page, 254 ff. (Folio 128 wrongly numbered 182) - [6] ff. including title, 203 ff, [29] ff. of annotations and index. Copy with the arms of the abbot Genesse decorated with the following motto: Quae est expectatio mea. nonne. Dominus / What is my expectation? I have none except my Lord. This is the scholarly edition of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, given with comments by the Dijon scholar Claude Mignault. Also present are the notes of the Protestant scholar Isaac Casaubon. On the title page, handwritten bookplate. Graesse, V, 347. OHR pl. 266.

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PLINO THE YOUNG Cai Plinii Secundi Epistolae. Adjetae Notae et emendationes hac tertia editione factae locupletiores. Auctore Claud. Minoe, Iurisc. Huic editioni accessere in eundem Plinium Isaaci Casauboni Notae Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1608. 2 parts in one large volume in-12, full morocco, gilt decoration with fanfare, arms in the center of the plates surmounted by a mitre and a crosier, surrounded by a motto. Gilded edges. 36 ff. including title page, 254 ff. (Folio 128 wrongly numbered 182) - [6] ff. including title, 203 ff, [29] ff. of annotations and index. Copy with the arms of the abbot Genesse decorated with the following motto: Quae est expectatio mea. nonne. Dominus / What is my expectation? I have none except my Lord. This is the scholarly edition of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, given with comments by the Dijon scholar Claude Mignault. Also present are the notes of the Protestant scholar Isaac Casaubon. On the title page, handwritten bookplate. Graesse, V, 347. OHR pl. 266.

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* Post-incunabula - CODRO (Antonio URCEO, known as). Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. Orationes, seu sermones ut ipse appellabat. Epistolae. Silvae. Satyrae. Eglogae. Epigrammata. Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 1502 (March 7). 2 parts in a small folio volume of [111, of 112] and [54 of 65] ff. coll. A8 B-Q6 R4 S6 T4 A8 B-H6 I4. Benedetti bookseller's mark on colophon. The first and last leaves are here in carefully imitated facsimile (with date on colophon modified at the end to date the edition to 1452...). Missing leaf A2 and last 11 leaves. Lack summarily restored on f. A3. Scattered wormholes affecting the text in places with losses. Brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with crowned DAUPHIN ciphers (partly faded), red marble title page (early 18th c. binding). Ex-libris of Baron de Warenghien. Rubbed. First edition of this important text for Italian humanism. A poet and teacher of grammar, rhetoric, poetry and Greek in Bologna, Antonio Urceo (1446 - 1500) was hired as a tutor by the patrician Ordelaffi family and trained, among other illustrious pupils, Nicolas Copernicus and Philippe Béroalde le jeune, to whom we owe this edition of his master's collective works (with the help of Jean de Pins and Bartolomeo Bianchini, and the encouragement of Antonio Galeazzo Bentivoglio, to whom the edition is dedicated). In addition to the lectures, it contains a small collection of Epistolae, two books of Sylvae in verse, an Aegloga and a book of Epigrams. More than half the volume is taken up by the lectures, which are the most eloquent testimony to his life and teachings. "First edition of this rare and sought-after work. Brunet (II, 121).

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