Classics. Plato, Ficino (Marsilio, translator) & North (...

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Classics. Plato, Ficino (Marsilio, translator) & North (John, editor), Platonis De Rebus Divinis Dialogi Selecti Græce & Latine, second edition, Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi, Impensis Joann. Creed, Bibliopolæ Cantab, 1683, rubricated title, Greek and Latin printing in parallel columns, complete, collating: [xvi], 256pp, three leaves with chipped corners, but without loss of text, fore margins with occasional pencil highlighting of passages, ffeps with contemporaneous manuscript in two distinct hands: Latin lines in pencil, with an English ink manuscript history of Platonic teachings on the immortality of the soul, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and splitting, but holding, pastedowns with post-incunabula printer's waste, red speckled edges, 8vo; Aulus Gellius, Gronovius (Johann Friedrich, editor) & (Jakob, editor), Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Libri XX [...], Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivié, 1706, engraved and rubricated letterpress title-pages, Latin text, with some Greek, contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, panelled in blind, 4to; Velleius Paterculus & Thysius the Younger (Antonius, editor), C. Velleius Paterculus Cum selectis Variorum Notis, first edition thus, Lugd. Bat [i.e. Leiden]: Ex officina Francisci Hackii [Franciscus Hackius], 1653, engraved allegorical title-page, contemporary Dutch vellum over thin boards, yapped and red edges, morocco lettering piece, ffep with 17th c inscriptions, 8vo, (3) 
 
Provenance: 1st: 1) ?C/G Barnes, July 1st 1706; title-page with pencilled ownership inscription. 2) Reverend St. George Bowles (d. 1804), matriculated Oriel College, Oxford, 1775, later vicar of Caverswall, Staffordshire; armorial bookplate to pastedown. 2nd: John Wordsworth FBA (1843-1911), Bishop of Salisbury (1885-1911); ink MS ownership inscription from his time as fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, dated 1874.