Add this copy of The Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo to cart. $150.00, very good condition, Sold by Main Street Fine Books, ABAA rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galena, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by North-Holland Publishing Company.
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Seller's Description:
Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jackets. 204pp; 408pp. Near fine/very good. Both jackets faintly edgeworn, with lightly sunned spines. Surprisingly scarce first editions of BOTH volumes of these Neoplatonic critiques of Plato's famous fourth and final dialogue about Socrates' last days, also known as "On the Soul" as it concerns the immortality of the soul. First volume presents Olympiodorus's lecture notes and the second volume Damascius's second and third lecture notes. Front flyleaf of first volume bears an unusual philographic addition: Tipped in is a First Day Cover, standard 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Washington, DC on 12 October 1943 and bearing a 5-cent "Greece" postage stamp (from the "Overrun Nations 'Flag' Stamps of 1943" series) at upper right. Near fine. Red-printed cachet at left depicts Greek crest and text about Greece's invasion by Axis troops in 1941. Recipient's name/address inked at center. A scarce duo and with appropriate postal addition.
