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Opera a Marsilio Ficino traducta: adiectis ad eius vitae & operum enarrationem Axiocho ab Rodulpho Agricola: & Alcyone ab Augustino Datho tra[ns]latis.
Paris: venundantur Iodoco Badio, [colophon: September 1522]. Folio (335 x 228 mm). Final blank, occasional diagrams. Letterpress title with a large woodcut printer’s device and elaborate woodcut surround, partially hand-colored including a shield shape at the foot of the page with contemporary arms and associated initails “N.G.”, 3-line to 13-line initials, most criblé. Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, covers panelled in blind, spine in five compartments with raised bands. Condition : margins of title torn with some loss to woodcut surround, some library stamp, slight worming throughout with a little loss; head of spine lacking, clasps defective, front pastedown torn with loss. Provenance : Nicolaus Gugler (b.1502, inscriptions on title and front pastedown, arms and initials on title, marginalia); early marginalia in a second (unidentified hand); Swindon Public Libraries (ink stamps). A beautifully-printed edition of Plato with and interesting provenance and a beautiful title-page. Gugler was an astronomer, doctor and advovcate, based at the Imperial court in Nuremberg, who also acted as an advisor to the King of Denmark (for more information about Gugler see Laurence Moulinier-Brogi. “A physician and his image of the 16th century? Nicolaus Gugler of Nuremberg” in Sudhoffs Archiv (2005) 89(1), pp.23-38; and Lynn Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science (1953) pp.370-371). Adams P1444; Renouard III p.169, II.