POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-1494). Opera . Edited by Alexander Sartius. Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1498. Bound in two volumes, Super-chancery 2 o (318 x 204 mm). Collation : [vol. I] a-p 8 q-r 1 0 s-t 8 (a1r title, a1v dedication by Aldus to Marino Sanuto, a2r table of contents, a3r Epistolae); A-I 8 K 4 (A1r Miscellanea, -K4 blank); [vol. II] L-P 8 Q-R 1 0 (L1r blank, L1v Herodian); S 8 (Epictetus); T 1 0 V 6 X 1 0 (Alexander Aphrodisiensis, etc., X10v blank); Y 1 0 Z 8 (In Aristotelis Analytica, De ira); & 1 0 (In expositione Homeri); aa 1 0 (Super Quintiliano, et Statii Silvis); "iterum" aa-"iterum" bb 8 (Orationes, Athanasii in Psalmos, Dialectica); bb-hh 8 ii 6 κκ 1 0 (bb1r Praelectio de dialectica, In Persium, Nutricia, Silvae, Epigrammata, Epigrammata graeca, κκ8v colophon, κκ9r quire register, κκ10r "Monodia" on the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, κκ10v blank). 451 (of 452, without blank K4). 38 lines and headline. Types: 2:114R, 114R* (sheet a1.6), 7:114Gk, Hebrew type on C5v and H8r. 2- to 9-line initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Some mostly marginal pale spotting, occasional pale dampstaining to extreme edges on some leaves, a few leaves lightly browned, small marginal repair on I7). Modern panelled calf gilt; quarter morocco folding cases. Provenance : Lawrence Witten inventory, sold Swann Galleries, New York, 17 October 1985, lot 315 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 October 1985. FIRST EDITION of Poliziano's collected works, and apparently the first printed collected edition of a modern author. Poliziano was preparing an edition of his letters when he died; the project was then taken on by the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti. An edition, of which a single sheet survives, was undertaken by Plato de Benedictus at Bologna, who had printed various of Poliziano's individual works and a collection of his vernacular writings in 1494, but the project was cut short by Plato's death in August 1496. To Poliziano's already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. A counterfeit edition was published the following year in Brescia, with a false Florentine imprint. The Hebrew type used on C5v and H8r is unrecorded in BMC, Proctor, or Haebler, and differs from the Hebrew types used later by Aldus. In this copy the first sheet is from the second setting (cf. BMC IB. 24473), printed in a variant of Aldus' 114-mm. roman type that is found in no other edition. HC 13218*; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24473-75); CIBN P-539; Harvard/Walsh 2666-68; IGI 7952; Pr 5567; Goff P-886.
POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-1494). Opera . Edited by Alexander Sartius. Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1498. Bound in two volumes, Super-chancery 2 o (318 x 204 mm). Collation : [vol. I] a-p 8 q-r 1 0 s-t 8 (a1r title, a1v dedication by Aldus to Marino Sanuto, a2r table of contents, a3r Epistolae); A-I 8 K 4 (A1r Miscellanea, -K4 blank); [vol. II] L-P 8 Q-R 1 0 (L1r blank, L1v Herodian); S 8 (Epictetus); T 1 0 V 6 X 1 0 (Alexander Aphrodisiensis, etc., X10v blank); Y 1 0 Z 8 (In Aristotelis Analytica, De ira); & 1 0 (In expositione Homeri); aa 1 0 (Super Quintiliano, et Statii Silvis); "iterum" aa-"iterum" bb 8 (Orationes, Athanasii in Psalmos, Dialectica); bb-hh 8 ii 6 κκ 1 0 (bb1r Praelectio de dialectica, In Persium, Nutricia, Silvae, Epigrammata, Epigrammata graeca, κκ8v colophon, κκ9r quire register, κκ10r "Monodia" on the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, κκ10v blank). 451 (of 452, without blank K4). 38 lines and headline. Types: 2:114R, 114R* (sheet a1.6), 7:114Gk, Hebrew type on C5v and H8r. 2- to 9-line initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Some mostly marginal pale spotting, occasional pale dampstaining to extreme edges on some leaves, a few leaves lightly browned, small marginal repair on I7). Modern panelled calf gilt; quarter morocco folding cases. Provenance : Lawrence Witten inventory, sold Swann Galleries, New York, 17 October 1985, lot 315 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 October 1985. FIRST EDITION of Poliziano's collected works, and apparently the first printed collected edition of a modern author. Poliziano was preparing an edition of his letters when he died; the project was then taken on by the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti. An edition, of which a single sheet survives, was undertaken by Plato de Benedictus at Bologna, who had printed various of Poliziano's individual works and a collection of his vernacular writings in 1494, but the project was cut short by Plato's death in August 1496. To Poliziano's already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. A counterfeit edition was published the following year in Brescia, with a false Florentine imprint. The Hebrew type used on C5v and H8r is unrecorded in BMC, Proctor, or Haebler, and differs from the Hebrew types used later by Aldus. In this copy the first sheet is from the second setting (cf. BMC IB. 24473), printed in a variant of Aldus' 114-mm. roman type that is found in no other edition. HC 13218*; BMC V, 559 (IB. 24473-75); CIBN P-539; Harvard/Walsh 2666-68; IGI 7952; Pr 5567; Goff P-886.
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