Sale: 405 / Rare Books, May 27./28. 2013 in Hamburg Lot 595

 
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Opera, 2 Bde. 1737.


595
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Opera, 2 Bde. 1737.
Estimate:
€ 800 / $ 856
Sold:
€ 732 / $ 783

(incl. surcharge)
Horatius Flaccus, Qu., Opera. 2 vols. With 2 engr. frontispieces, 2 engr. titles with vignette, 1 engr. portrait, 6 fullpage coppers in the text as well as 510 engr. text pages with very many vignettes and initials. London, J. Pine 1733-37. Smoothed brown contemp. calf with gilt spine and gilt edges. 8vo. Title, 14 ll., 264 pp.; title, 10 ll., 191 pp., 7 ll.Cohen/Ricci Sp. 497. - Lewine S. 246. - Lowndes II, 1113. - Sander 943. - Schweiger I, 408. - Ebert 10203. - Brunet III, 320: "Cette éd., entièrement gravée, est remarquable par l'élégance des ornements, et la correction en est plus exacte qu'on ne le croit généralement." - Second print of this edition with the coreected inscription on the coin 'potest' (instead of 'post.est'; vol. II, p. 108). - With this edition the London engraver John Pine created the "first European book entirely engraved in copper" (Thieme/B. XXVII, 53). - Partly rubbed in places, binding somewhat loosened; else fine and clean copy from the collection Hermann Frischen (modern ex-libris).



595
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Opera, 2 Bde. 1737.
Estimate:
€ 800 / $ 856
Sold:
€ 732 / $ 783

(incl. surcharge)