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GELLIUS, Aulus

Noctes Atticae
Lyon
Seb. Gryphius
1550
€120 - €160

8vo: [64]-533-[1] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at the end. (missing final blank; some dampstaining and spotting, title soiled and underlaid, tiny worming in blank bottom margin of central quires). Old vellum, gilt-titled flat spine, blue edges, decorative endpapers. Good copy. Lyon ed. of Gellius' popular commonplace book, with notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today. Ref. SvGültlingen (Gryphius) 1103. - Baudrier VIII:238. - Schweiger II, p.378 - Not in Adams. Prov. Old names on title and front flyleaf. C.J.J.G. Vosmaer (Dutch genealogist, 1918-1986; armorial bookpl.). Bound with - MOSELLANUS, Petrus - In Auli Gellii Noctes Atticas annotationes. Ibidem, 1542. 213-[2 bl., 1] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Extensive index by the German humanist Mosellanus (Peter Schade, 1493-1524)

Ref. SvGültlingen (Gryphius) 738. - Baudrier VIII:169. - Not in Adams