MACROBE

The rare and precious first edition of the works of Macrobius by Niccolo Angeli. The editorial information appears in the colophon, the title page displaying only the full title: Impressum Flor?tiae opera & sumptu Philippi Iuntae. Anno à natiuitate D. XV. supra mille mense Iulio. Leone Decimo Pontifice. The italic typography and that of the entire work should be noted as particularly advanced for its time, especially compared to France, Germany and England where it would be imitated much later, around 1550. 7 vignettes in Scipio's Dream, including Macrobius's representation of the world in 5 climatic zones, a representation that would enduringly mark the Middle Ages. Contemporary full vellum

Libri de re rustica M. Catonis, M. Terentii Varronis, M. Iunii Moderati Columelle, Palladii Rutilii : quorum summam pagina sequens indicabit [with] Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri consularis, in Somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis Libri duo, Et Saturnaliorum Lib. VII. Cum scholiis & indicibus Ascensianis [with] De die Natali. Censorini opusculum, de die natali, ad Q. Cerellium
Venundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [Josse Bade] | [Paris] 1529 et 1524 pour les deux textes suivants | in-folio (20.5 x 31.5 cm) | A6 A8 a-t8 v6 x8 et Aa6 †4 A-O8 et Aa10 | contemporary stiff vellum
First Parisian edition of the Libri de re rustica with a frontispiece-title showing a scene in a print