Hoc Volumine Continentur… [Opera, edited by Nicolaus Angelius].
Florence: Juntae, 1515.
Octavo, ff. [xii], 280, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, with six woodcuts; contemporary vellum,
The pocket Macrobius
This was the first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing in the early sixteenth century and must have looked as startlingly modern then as Allen Lane's first Penguins looked in the 1930s or ´40s.
This was the first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing in the early sixteenth century and must have looked as startlingly modern then as Allen Lane's first Penguins looked in the 1930s or ´40s.
This printing includes a slightly developed form of the famous Macrobian world map with its massive southern continent (see previous item).
Adams, M59; Shirley, 13n.
Condition Report: A bit stained, but a good copy.
Price (AUD): $5,400.00
US$3,779.93 Other currencies