(APULEE) APULEIUS Lucius :

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(APULEE) APULEIUS Lucius :
Opera. In-folio full brown morocco, bevelled edges and cold borders, spine with 5 double-nerves framed with cold borders extending on the boards, gothic gold lettering designating the author, the place, the date, three gilt edges, counter-plates with roulette, binding signed David. Printed in Vicenza, Henrico de Sancto Urso, August 9, 1488. Printed in Roman letters, one column of 38 lines. A blue heading. 20 illuminated initials, each announcing the beginning of a book or a chapter: height of 8, 7 or 5 lines, pink, gold, blue, green. The first of these is accompanied by a conjunction of two coats of arms surrounded by a plant crown, the initials F and C on either side. The first coat of arms: azure to the golden chevron accompanied by two stars of the same and in point a tree trunk of silver. The second is silver, the gonfalon of gules, this one possibly the Confalonieri family. Each of the two illuminations: rose, red, gold, blue, green and gold leaf. Handwritten notes in brown ink in the margins, some cut by the binder. First page handwritten and lined. Bookplate of diamond dealer Albert Ehrman and an ex-dono dated March 17, 1949 from the Broxbourne Library, founded by the same and his wife. A few stains and fingerprints, otherwise generally fresh inside. Rare edition, introduced by the letter Alerensis to Pope Paul II, followed by the table, De Asino Aureo (The Golden Ass, another name of his famous Metamorphoses), Floridorum (Miscellany), Apologia, De Deo Socratis, De dogmate Platonis (On Plato and his teaching), De Philosophia, De Mundo, the Asclepius attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, whose translation was falsely attributed to Apuleius and finally Epitoma Alcinoi in the Latin translation of the humanist Pietro Balbi, preceded by the letter addressed by the latter to Nicholas of Cues.
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