SOPHOCLES (- LUCIANUS) (Greek:) Tragodiai hepta ...Tragoediae septem... Frankfurt, P. Braubach 1555.
8vo. 417 pp., (1) p. (of 422 : lacking the two blank final leaves). Some woodcut initials. (BOUND WITH:) LUCIANUS: Dialogi ... selectiores, Superorum, Marinorum & Inferorum. Quibus additi sunt Prometheus, sive Caucasus. Menippus, seu Necyomantia. Timon, vel Mis- anthropos...Strasbourg, Cephalaeos (= Köpfel) Bros., 1556. 8vo. (8) lvs. (the last two blank), 130 lvs. (the last one mis-numbered ["116"]), (6) lvs. Printer's device in woodcut on last leaf verso. Dated ("1560") contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (darkened, rubbed [spine, edges and corners heavily], rear board water-marked, spine with a few worm-tracks), remains of clasps. I: Third Braubach edition in Greek, much rarer than the quarto edition of the same year (not in Schweiger, Hoffmann, Adams, Graesse, in German libraries 3 copies only). II: Bilingual edition (Greek - Latin), probably the second by Köpfel Bros. Very scarce too (not in VD 16, Schweiger Hoffmann). Both front end-paper and fly-leaf with ownership and donation entries (the oldest one from 1562!), rear end-paper with entries as well. I: Title and p. 8 printed in red and black, title with entries. The first quires with extensive annotations (later decreasing). Browning throughout, in places finger-stained (title and first leaves more intensively) some quires water-marked to joint or lower edge. Last leaf with small tear to upper margin. II: Title with handwritten entry and paper defects to lower margin (not affecting text). Slightly browned throughout, in places with stains, last leaves water-marked. Last leaf stained more heavily. I: VD 16, S 7036; BMSTC (German Books) 820; see Löwe in: Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1940, p. 309. II: Muller 498,5.
Euro2800
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