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(Orations. Greek.)
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(Orations. Greek.) Isocratis orationes omnes [...] addita variae lectionis annotatione,

Publication details: Frankfurt: [Peter Braubach],1540,

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The first pocket edition of Isocrates Orations, from the substantial scholarly library of Gmez Dvila y Toledo, 2nd Marqus de Velada (1541-1616). His books can be distinguished from those of his brother Sancho (Bishop of Cartagena, Jan, Sigenza, and Plasencia) by the presence of the crown, rather than the mitre, atop the distinctive fore-edge decoration which they both employed. In the late eighteenth century, their libraries were absorbed by inheritance into the Astorga-Altamira library, mixed there among books from the collections of many other Spanish noble families. That vast library was sold in the 1820s (Goldschmidt 235).

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Woodcut initials and headpieces, some contemporary marginalia and underlining; dampstain to foot of title, prelims a little soiled and occasional marks elsewhere, with some quires toned, old wormtracks at start and end, but only the odd letter lost and sense wholly recoverable, ff. [28], 349, [1], small 8vo (collation: - 8 4 A-Z8 AA-XX8), contemporary Spanish blind-panelled calf over wooden boards, leather thong clasps, top and bottom edges red, later sixteenth-century decoration on the fore-edge comprising the title beneath two armorials (see below); top edge a little browned, binding slightly tight, repairs to edges and spine; erased inscription on flyleaf, early seventeenth-century ms. pressmark, nineteenth-century printed label pasted to foot of title-page: Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga, recent discreet book label of K. J. Hewett to recto of terminal blank, very good

Bibliography: (Not in Adams; Schweiger I 181; VD16, 10-1390)

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