Live auction - Lot 1022
[Latin poetry - Scaliger]
Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii nova editio, Iosephus Scaliger Iul. Caesaris F. recensuit. Eiusdem in eosdem Castigationum liber auctus & recognitus ab ipso auctore. Ad [...]. Cl. Puteanum [...].
[Geneva], J. Stoer, 1607
€ 300 / 350
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Lot description
16mo: [16]-306-333 (= 331)-[1-2 bl.] pp. (usual minor toning and spotting).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine (endpapers lifted). Good copy.
Extr. rare 4th ed. of the important scholarly ed. by J.J. Scaliger (1540-1609) of the Roman lyric poets (1st Paris 1577, 2nd Antwerp 1582, 3rd Heidelberg 1600). With his extensive annotations, partly based on newly discovered manuscripts. Ornament on title and part-title.
Ref. Not in Smitskamp (Scaliger Collection). - Not in BL, BnF, Leiden etc.
Prov. Old name on front flyleaf. - Joannes Loubry (old collector's ticket).