Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Isocrates. Isokratous Athenaiou sophistou Logoi kai Epistolai [Greek letters]. – Isocratis Atheniensis Rhetoris Orationes et Epistolae.

With woodcut printer’s device on title and at the end and with two woodcut historiated initials. 287, (1) leaves. Small 8vo. 18th-century half calf with spine label. – Venetiis (Venice), Officina Farrea, 1542 (at the end: 1543).

Authoritative Greek edition of Isocrates’ (436–338 B.C.) works, based on the previous Aldine editions. – Title and flyleaf with some old ms. owner’s entries. Title leaf restored (supplied) at bottom margin. A mostly clean copy in a later 18th-century binding. – Best.-Nr. 23775