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4° (22 x 15.8 cm.), contemporary vellum (some wear, inner hinges becoming loose), horizontal manuscript author and short title on spine, ties present but worn, text-block edges sprinkled. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Elegant woodcut initials and vignettes. Overall in very good condition. xii, 471 pp. , 2 , A-Z , 2A-2Z , 3A-3N *** First Monfort edition. Finely printed on excellent quality paper. It includes Cicero's De Officiis, De Amicitia, De Senectute, Paradoxa, and the Somnium Scipionis, each with translator's preface. On pp. 381-456, also with a translator's preface, is a translation of Xenophon's Oeconomicus, a Greek work of the fourth century B.C. that was translated to Latin by Cicero, and read widely in the Renaissance. It is one of the earliest works to deal with economics in the original sense: household management and agriculture.Francisco de Thámara, humanist, historian, and translator, first published his translations of De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute in Seville, 1545; they were frequently reprinted.Cicero's Paradoxa and Somnium Scipionis and Xenophon's Oeconomicus were translated by Juan Jarava.*** Ruiz Lasala 246. Palau 54348; cf. 54344 and 54346. Whitehead, BL Eighteenth-Century Spanish STC C704. Menéndez y Pelayo, Bibliografía hispano-latina clásica, CLXXXIX. Not in Whitehead "Benito Monfort . Holdings in . British Library" in The British Library Journal, X, 1 (Spring 1984). Cf. Beardsley p. 152; nos. 45 and 55. CCPBE cites numerous copies. Jisc repeats British Library only. Seller Inventory # 25810
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