Live auction - Lot 937
[Mythology - Ovid]
Mythologia in qua haec continentur. Disputatio de fabula, & fabulari sermone. Fabulosa exempla [...] ex Ouidiana metamorphosi [...]. Epitome in Ouidij Metamorph. libros [...].
Bologna, A. Benacci & G. Rossi, 1560
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
4to: [44]-120-[7, 1 bl.] pp.
19th-c. quarter calf, marbl. paper on covers, gilt flat spine (sl. rubbed, endpapers lifted). Good copy.
Very rare treatise on fables and mythology, focusing on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, composed by the young Italian scholar Tritonio (1541-1572). Ref. Edit16 40483. - STC Italian (BL) 682. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old name on title.
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