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Bessarion (Cardinal Basilius) In Calumniatorem Platonis libri quatuor [and other works], woodcut printers device to title, initial spaces with guide-letter, water-stained, [Adams B833; Ahmanson-Murphy 75; Renouard, Alde, 40:5; EDIT 16 CNCE 5644], Venice, Aldus Manutius July, 1503 bound after Iamblichus. De Mysteriis Aegyptorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum [and other works], edited and translated by Marsilio Ficino, woodcut printers device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., initial spaces with guide-letter, tear within text of I1 without loss, occasional staining or spotting, [Adams I1; Ahmanson-Murphy 150; Renouard, Alde, 77:8; EDIT 16 CNCE 37529], Venice, House of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, November, 1516, together 2 works in 1 vol., early ms. ff. used as endpapers, ornately blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, metal and leather clasps, spine ends and corners repaired, rubbed, both works with ample margins, folio ⁂ The first Aldine edition (second overall) of the Bessarion, which was a reply to his adversary George of Trebizonds attack on Platonism in his Comparatio philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis. Bessarions treatise reconciles the compatibility of Platonism with Christianity. It is bound with a collection of classical platonic and neo-platonic works by authors, including Proclus, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius and Ficino, as well as Iamblichus. Provenance: Count Dmitri Petrovich Boutourlin (large bookplate to front pastedown).