POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-1494). Opera . Edited by Alexander Sartius. Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1498. The Charles W. Clark copy of the first edition of the collected works of the great Florentine humanist, “l'une des plus belles qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine” (Renouard). To Politian’s already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. 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. Brother of William Andrews Clark, Charles Clark was “a golden collector of the golden age,” whose library was bought by Dr. Rosenbach (Wolf and Fleming, Rosenbach ). HC 13218*; BMC V, 559; BSB-Ink P-663; CIBN P-539; IGI 7952; Renouard Alde , 17:4; ISTC ip00886000; Goff P-886. Super-chancery folio (287 x 190mm). 452 leaves. (First 2 leaves browned.) Early 19th-century straight-grained morocco by Charles Lewis gilt ruled, gilt edges, wide gilt turn-ins (edges a little scuffed). Provenance : Charles W. Clark (1871-1933, Catalogue I, 100; note on endpaper).
POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-1494). Opera . Edited by Alexander Sartius. Venice: Aldus Manutius July 1498. The Charles W. Clark copy of the first edition of the collected works of the great Florentine humanist, “l'une des plus belles qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine” (Renouard). To Politian’s already published works and translations Aldus added his letters, Latin and Greek poems, and several short treatises. 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. Brother of William Andrews Clark, Charles Clark was “a golden collector of the golden age,” whose library was bought by Dr. Rosenbach (Wolf and Fleming, Rosenbach ). HC 13218*; BMC V, 559; BSB-Ink P-663; CIBN P-539; IGI 7952; Renouard Alde , 17:4; ISTC ip00886000; Goff P-886. Super-chancery folio (287 x 190mm). 452 leaves. (First 2 leaves browned.) Early 19th-century straight-grained morocco by Charles Lewis gilt ruled, gilt edges, wide gilt turn-ins (edges a little scuffed). Provenance : Charles W. Clark (1871-1933, Catalogue I, 100; note on endpaper).
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