Accession number:
PML 25163
Published:
Parrisiis : In aedibus Egidii Gourmont & Hemonis le februe, Me[n]se Iulii D.xi [July 1511].
Description:
[40], 525, [1] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Credit:
Gift of Leonard L. Machall, 1927.
Notes:
Colophon imprint.
Capital spaces, with guide letters.
Edited by Aldo Manuzio.
Signatures: a-kk⁸.
"The first French edition of Pliny's Epistulae, which appeared at Paris in 1510, was a reprint of Beroaldo's 1498 edition; but in the following year (1511) an edition was reprinted “per fidelissimum exemplar Aldinum” (of 1508) by Aegydius Gourmont and Hemon Le Febure. This 1511 edition includes the first translation of all the Greek words in Pliny's letters; the translator is Ricardus Crocus (Richard Crooks), who dedicated his work to his teacher Girolamo Aleandro."--Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, volume IX. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2011, page 89.
Binding:
20th-century 1/2 dark brown morocco, with brown cloth sides.
Variant Title:
Epistolarum libri decem
Provenance:
Jacob Mann, signature "Jacobius Mannius" (leaf a1r); Ernst Philip Goldschmidt, booklabel (front pastedown); Leonard L. Machall, gift inscription to Pierpont Morgan Library, Dec. 19, 1927.
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