Live auction - Lot 782
Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Caesaris et Pompeji Lib. x. Additae sunt in fine Hugonis Grotii notae. Ex binis antehac editis junctae, auctae, correctae. Et Thomae Farnabii in margine. etc.
Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1643
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: 330 [incl. engr. title]-[6] pp. (sl. age-toned, upper corner of engr. title missing, foxing).
Contemp. red morocco entirely decorated with a gilt semé of fleurs-de-lys ruled with a double-fillet, 19th-c. marbled endpapers, gilt edges (head and tail skilfully repaired).
Edition with the commentaries of Hugo Grotius, in fine, and Thomas Farnaby, surrounding the text. Illustrated with an engr. title.
Ref. STCN.
Prov. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), famous printer, Hellenist and art collector (bookpl. on red morocco dated 1850).