IAMBLICHUS (245-325). Logio suo. De Vita Pythagorae, & Protrepticae Orationes ad Philosophiam Lib. II. Johannes Theodoretus Arcerius, editor and translator. [Heidelberg & Franeker]: A. Radaeus, 1598. Latin translation.
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Nov 9, 2021
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Lot Description
IAMBLICHUS (245-325). Logio suo. De Vita Pythagorae, & Protrepticae Orationes ad Philosophiam Lib. II. Johannes Theodoretus Arcerius, editor and translator. [Heidelberg & Franeker]: A. Radaeus, 1598.
3 parts in one volume, 4to (208 x 153 mm). Woodblock device on title-page; 25 woodblock initials, illustrations, and diagrams. (Browning or spotting to a few leaves, small wormhole in blank lower margin of opening leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, spine hand-lettered, yapp edges (some soiling, chipping or tears). Provenance: Lenit Et Ardet (bookplate).
Latin translation by Arcerius of Iamblichus’s biography of Pythagoras with Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. This edition also includes Iamblichus’ Protrepticus, which preserved the work of the otherwise unknown 5th-century BCE Sophist knowns as the “Anonymous Iamblichi.” Adams 17; Brunet III. 493.
Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
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