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PARRHASIUS (Janus). Liber de rebus per epistolam...

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PARRHASIUS (Janus). Liber de rebus per epistolam quaesitis. (Geneva), Henri Estienne, 1567. In-8, ivory vellum (contemporary binding). First edition of the philological letters of the Italian humanist Parrhasius (1470-1522); it is superbly printed in small characters by Henri Estienne with the mention Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, patron of the famous printer, in the address. Wrong fold on the second plate, otherwise the copy is pure.