XENOPHON - Lot 233

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XENOPHON - Lot 233
XENOPHON Opera Varia [Milan], [Alessandro Minuziano], [c. 1501] THE OLDEST KNOWN HUNTING TREATISE First collective edition, partly original. Princeps edition of De Venatione, hunting section In-folio (293 x 204mm). 43 lines per page. Rubricated letters COLLATION: A-D6 E4 a-l6 m4 (last leaf blank) CONTENTS: A1r: table of contents, A1v: decicace, A2r: De venatione, B4r: Liber de re publica et de legibus Lacedaemoniorum, C2v: Oratio de regis Agesilai laudibus, D3v: Apologia pro Socrate, D5v: Opusculum De tyrannide, E4r: Libellus de Aequivocis, a1r: Paedia Cyri Persarum regis, m3r: colophon, m3v: designation of translators BINDING: Cold-stamped brown saddle-skin spine, period fillets preserved, one clasp. Trace of old wetness in upper margin The De Venatione, composed by Xenophon (430-355 BC) and first printed in this edition, is considered to be the oldest known hunting treatise. BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 989904 -- ISTC ix00002000 -- Thiébaud, 947 -- Goff X-2 -- Gesamtkatalog M51849 -- Dennis E. Rhodes, "The First collected Latin edition of Xenophon", in Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1981, pp. 151-153
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