XENOPHON. c.430-c.355 B.C.E. Opera. Basel: Andreas Cratander, 1534..
XENOPHON. c.430-c.355 B.C.E.
Opera. Basel: Andreas Cratander, 1534.
Folio (295 x 187 mm). a-b6 A-2R6 2S4. Printer's woodcut device on title and last page; historiated initials, first page of text in elaborate woodcut border. Modern vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Scattered wormholes and short wormtrails catching letters, stain to title, some small repairs at ends, a little early marginalia shaved.

Handsomely printed edition from an important humanist press. The translators for this edition include Erasmus, Leonardo Bruni, Willibald Pirckheimer, among others.
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