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Sale 488: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Property of Jane Hohfeld Galante & Other Owners (#488) 09/13/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #27 Opera

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$750

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Description

Title:

Opera

Author:

Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius

Place Published:

Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]

Publisher:

Sumptibus Rudolphi a Zyll

Date Published:

1680

Description:

12 p. l., 638 pp., 1 l., 662 (i.e. 672), [62] pp. Printer's device on title-page; added copper-engraved pictorial title-page. (8vo) 19.2x11 pp. (7½x4½"), period vellum stamped in gilt with a coat of arms featuring two standing lions. ribbon ties.

Works of the three Latin poets, with commentaries by Joannes Georgius Graevius; Joseph Juste Scaliger; Marc-Antoine Muret; Aquiles Estaç; and others. With two bookplates of Camille Aboussouan, onetime ambassador of Lebanon to UNESCO, and a noted collector of books.

Condition:

A little discoloration and rubbing to vellum; else very good.

Item#:

229366

Headline:

Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, 1680
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