32. Plato. Omnia Opera cum Commentariis Procli in Timaeum et Politica, 2 parts in 1, edited by Oporinus and Simon Grynæus, title in Greek and Latin, woodcut initials, occasional early marginalia and underlining in red ink (slightly faded), title and first sig. washed, lightly browned, staining to inner and upper margins, occasionally touching text, antique style calf, gilt leather label to spine, [Adams P1437 and P2139], folio, Basel, apud Ioan. Valderum, 1534.
est. £1500 – £2000
Second edition of the Greek Plato and the editio princeps of the commentary of Proculus.
“That Plato should be the first of all ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable” (PMM).