£300
16mo, pp. [liv], 343, [1], 148, [4]. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum, paper label and ink manuscript lettering to spine. Some foxing and faint dampmarks. Binding marked and dustsoiled. Three ink ownership inscriptions to front endpapers: A. Ernstmann (1881), James Ralph (1838), and R. Pearson (undated but earlier).
The first London printing of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in the original Greek, with facing Latin text, taken from the edition by Wilhelm Xylander (1532-1576) and corrected by Méric Casaubon (1599-1671). Causabon had already published his own English translation in 1634, and for this edition was aided by a manuscript emended by his father, the famous scholar Isaac, which he claimed was 'of more use to him than all the preceding editions' (Dibdin p.268).
