Lot 899
899
PLATO. Chalcidii V.C. Timaeus de Platonis translatus. Item ejusdem in eundem commentarius. Joannes Meursius red., denuò ed., & notas addidit. Leyden, Ex Off. J. Colsteri, 1617. (10), 42, (16), 463 pp. Sm-4°. Fine cont. English panelled and blind tooled cf. w. raised bands and red label. (Bind. a bit chafed in places, tiny stamp on ti.).
Chalcidius was a 4th-century philosopher (and possibly a Christian) who translated the first part (to 53c) of Plato's Timaeus from Greek into Latin around the year 321 and provided with it an extensive commentary. - Rare. Hoffmann III, 140; Schweiger II, 101-02. - From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield.€ 300
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