Live auction - Lot 685
[Estienne Press - Proverbs]
Sente[n]tiae & proverbia ex Plauto, Terentio, Virgilio, Ovidio, Horatio […]. Index sente[n]tiarum & prouerbiorum.
Paris, R. Estienne, 1540
Hammer price: €
600
€ 300 / 450
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Lot description
8vo: 159-[17] pp. (some min. soiling).
Later vellum, flat spine, red edges (warping). Very good copy.
Third and rarest Estienne ed. of this collection of proverbs taken from classical Latin poets, first publ. 1534 (repr. 1536). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. BP16 109970. - Renouard 50:9 (not seen!). - Adams P-1517. - Moreau V:1944. - Not in Schreiber.
Prov. Some contemp. notes in red ink on final p.
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