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276 - SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE (Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius) and…
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SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE (Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius) and SAVARON (John). The Works of Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, Bishop of Auvergne. A fine edition of the complete works of one of the finest representatives of Late Roman Latin literature, in an early 17th-century binding. Paris, Adrian Perier (of the Officine Platin), 1599. In-4 (220 x 150 mm), full contemporary brown calfskin, smooth spine with double horizontal fillets and small gilt daisy-shaped metal fittings, Duseuil-style covers with gilt edges. 1 blank folio, XXI, 593 pages, 23 blank folios (index and errata); 210 pages, 6 blank folios (index). Spine faded, joints and covers rubbed, joint of front cover split, cap bands damaged, corners worn, a few pages foxed. In Latin. Second edition of the complete works of Sidoine Apollinaire (430–489), Bishop of Clermont, edited by Jean Savaron (1556/1557–1622). This edition, published a year after the original, is supplemented by a commentary on the works of Sidoine Apollinaire. Deeply attached to the city where he was born and died, it is therefore no surprise that Savaron, a recognised member of the Republic of Letters, chose the Bishop of Clermont as his subject of study. For Sidoine Apollinaire, despite a relatively late entry into the episcopate, was one of the great poets and men of letters of the Late Roman Empire. It was most likely thanks to his skills as a versifier that he survived the successive seizures of power by Emperor Majorian and Euric, King of the Visigoths, even though he had supported the former’s predecessor and organised his city’s defence against the latter. Handwritten ex-libris ‘C. de Raymond’ with library number (no. 1854) on the flyleaf. [Brunet V, 374.] A fine, fairly fresh copy in a good contemporary binding.
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About the sale Fine antique and collectible books, manuscripts and modern illustrated works
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Auction time 06/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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