OROSIO, Paolo

Starting price
€ 480
Auction dateClassic
21.09.2021 10:30UTC +02:00
Auctioneer
Il Ponte Casa d'Aste
Event location
Italy, Milano
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 609977
Lot 90 | OROSIO, Paolo
OROSIO, Paolo (ca. 375-420) - Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem [LEGATO CON:] - TUCIDIDE. De bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri VIII. Colony: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1526 e 1527.

A volume containing two elegantely printed editions. The first is a 16th-century edition of Orosio's work: an important historical text conceived as a complement to Augustine's "City of God" and which represents the first attempt to describe the history of the world as the history of God who guides humanity. The second work is an edition of the Latin translation of the Greek story of Thucydides by Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457).

2 works in one volume, folio (295 x 190mm). Title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut headpieces and historiated initials (first work with expertly reinforced title and without final blank; second with title just slightly damaged at the outer margin, some general occasional browning and soiling). Eighteenth century calf decorated with gilt fillets on covers, gilt spine, blue edges and marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Jacques Laget (exlibris).
Address of auction Il Ponte Casa d'Aste
Via Pontaccio 12
20121 Milano
Italy
Preview
16.09.2021 – 18.09.2021
Phone +39 02 863141
Fax +39 02 72022083
Email
Buyer Premium 26.0%
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

Related terms

× Create a Search Subscription