EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THEOPHRASTUS' TWO LAST "CHARACTERES"

THEOPHRASTUS ERESIUS. -THEOPHRASTOS - THEOPHRAST.

Characterum Ethicorum. Capita duo hactenus anecdota quae ex cod. Ms. Vaticano Saeculi XI Graece edidit Latine vertit. Praefatione et adnotationibus illustravit Johannes Christophorus Amadutius.

Parmae, Ex Regio Typographeo, 1786. 4to. Orig. blank boards. Spine missing. Bdg. and bookblock tight. Minor occasional soiling; lacking a small part of corners of some leaves, far from affecting text. An overall good and solid copy. Engr. frontispiece-portrait, engr. title-vignette. Printed on good and thick paper. (10), 128, (6) pp + (1) leaf, errata.

The rare editio princeps of Theophrastus' 29th and 30th characters. Greek and Latin text.

The work is renowned, not only for containing the very first printing of Theophrastus' two last "characteres", but also for the beautiful printing of it and Amadutius' excellent and instructive foreword and notes. "A very splendid edition, exhibiting only two chapters (cap. 29 and 30) of this work, from a Vatican MS. of the eleventh century. It is mentioned, in order that the student may consult the very learned prolegomena which it contains." (Dibdin, II:503). Brunet 5:798.

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