SENECA. Senece omnia opera. Lot n° 4

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. Senece omnia opera. Impressum Venetiis: per Bartholomeum de Zanis de Portesio, 1503. die. vii. Nouembris. Folio, 305x215 mm. Parchment binding over hardback, with leather inlays, nails. 211 papers. Colophon on verso of last card "Impressum Venetiis per Bartholomeum de Zanis de Portesio, 1503. die. vii. Nouembris." Title on buttonhole, on verso table cool contents of work, xylographic capilettera, spaces with guide lettering, Roman typeface. Woodworm hole on first 9 folios affecting a few letters. Good specimen with wide margins. Very rare post-incunabulum printed in Venice. The volume, imprinted in the magnificent Roman typefaces coined by the Brescian printer Bartolomeo Zani, opens with the apocryphal correspondence of Seneca and St. Paul, fourteen letters written by an anonymous fourth-century forger, six of which he attributed to the apostle Paul and eight to the Roman philosopher and scholar. It then contains all of Seneca's most important philosophical works, including: Letters to Lucilius; The Remedies of Fortune; On Wrath; Clemency; The Benefices; The Shortness of Life; Natural Matters.Edit16 CNCE 47790; BMC Ital. Books S. 621. Edition unknown to Moss, Dibdin, Adams. Folio, 305x215 mm. Vellum binding on hardback, with leather inlays, wide squares. Leaves 211. Colophon on the verso of the last leaf "Impressum Venetiis per Bartholomeum de Zanis de Portesio, 1503. die. vii. Nouembris." Title on half-title, plate of contents of the work on the verso, woodcut Initials, spaces with guide letter, Roman type. Small wormhole on the first 9 sheets affecting some letters. Good copy with wide margins. Very rare Venetian post-incunabulum. The volume, imprinted in the magnificent Roman types coined by the Brescian printer Bartolomeo Zani, opens with the apocryphal correspondence of Seneca and St. Paul, fourteen letters written by an anonymous forger in the fourth century, six of which he attributed to the apostle Paul and eight to the Roman philosopher and man of letters. It then contains all of Seneca's most important philosophical works, including: Letters to Lucilius; The Remedies of Fortune; On Anger; On Clemency; On Benefits; On the Shortness of Life; Natural Questions.Edit16 CNCE 47790¸ BMC Ital. Books S. 621. edition unknown to Moss, Dibdin, Adams. BMC Ital. Books S. 621; Edit16 CNCE 47790.