LIBANIUS, Marcus Junius BRUTUS, HIPPOCRATE, et al. Epistolar - Lot 135

LIBANIUS, Marcus Junius BRUTUS, HIPPOCRATE, et al. Epistolarum Laconicarum farragines duæ, quarum una, quæ è Græco versæ sunt, altera Latinæ tantum continentur. Catalogum verò ærundem cum suis autoribus, versa pagella, deprehendes. Basel, Robert Winter, 1545. In-24, 698, [1] pp, 1 bl. f., [1] f. Ornate letters, fine printer's mark on verso of last f. Havana calf in the style of Duseuil, spine with 4 bands, gilt irons in the spandrels and gilt central iron on the boards, red edges (period binding). Contains a preface and translations by Gilbert COUSIN DE NOZEROY. Handwritten bookplate on title; from the library of Du Breil de Rays (Brittany) with his repeated bookmark (a lion and the Virgilian motto "Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos"). Binding badly restored, especially at spine, wetness to first 7 quires.