APULEIUS MADAURENSIS - HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. Quae in toto opere continentur… Metamorphoseon sive de Asino aureo.

Small 8vo 160x100 mm. Contemporary full vellum binding. Leaves (6), 273, [i.e. 255], (1). Errors into the numbering. Colophon on recto of the last leaf “Florentiae per haeredes Philippi Iuntae …, 1522 Kalen. Octobris”. Italic type. Manuscript notes, good copy.

Rare first Giuntina edition of the collective collection of Apuleius's works. The edition includes his most famous work, "Asinus aureus", and various other treatises on Platonic philosophy: "Floridorum libri IIII" (collection of passages from his speeches), "De Deo Socratis libri II" (treatise expounding the doctrine platonic of beneficial demons intermediaries between men and gods), the treatise on Plato "Vita, instituta, dogmata Platonis", the two books of his "Apologia", appreciated above all as a source of biographical information, the Trismegisti dialogus and finally De mundo siue De cosmographia liber I. The text is preceded by a dedication addressed to Filippo Strozzi by “Bernardus Philomates Pisanus”. After the dedication to the reader there is a Greek poem in praise of Apuleius.