06-01-201306-01-2013
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June 1, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Early Printing, Mixed Lot, Seven Volumes:

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$570$475
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2658BLocation: BostonDate / Time: June 01, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

Early Printing, Mixed Lot, Seven Volumes:Priapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus, [17th century?], small format, contemporary binding, engraved title.
Jacopo Sannazaro's Opera Omnia, Lyons: Gryphius, 1587, [bound with] Silius Italicus's De Bello Punico, Leiden: Candidus, 1598, in a contemporary sheepskin binding with a large fleur-de-lis tooled in blind on both covers and an early monastic woodcut bookplate pasted inside the front board, front cover detached, first title page damaged.
Peter Scriverius's Histoire des Contes d'Hollande, The Hague: Vlaq, 1664, contemporary parchment, Prince of Liechtenstein's copy.
Hugo Grotius's Poemata Omnia, Leiden: Vogel, 1645, fourth edition, engraved title, clean contents, contemporary parchment.
Almanach des Muses, Paris: Delalain, 1776, untrimmed, in the original pale green paper wrappers with date stamped into front cover, half-title.
Dorat's Fables Nouvelles, The Hague/Paris: Delalain, 1776, fourth edition, illustrated with a full-paged engraving before the first page of text and numerous vignettes, contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine.
Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, edited by Scaliger et al., Utrecht: Zyll, 1680, engraved title, contemporary stiff board parchment binding. (7)
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Opera Omnia, Peter Scriverius, Liechtenstein, Hugo Grotius, Paris