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[CLASSICS]. A collection of volumes comprising works by Cice…
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[CLASSICS]. A collection of volumes comprising works by Cice…
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Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[CLASSICS]. A collection of volumes comprising works by Cicero, Valerius Flaccus, Plautus, Gaius Lucilius, Quintilian and Macrobius, in uniform bindings.
A fine collection of Latin classics, including a substantial series of the refined Padua editions printed by Comino.
Comprising: CICERO. *Opera quae supersunt omnia*. Venice: Pitteri, 1731. 11 parts in 12 volumes, 8vo (185 × 120 mm), engraved frontispieces and one folding plate in the first volume. [WITH:] VALERIUS FLACCUS. *Argonauticon*. Padua: Comino, 1720. [WITH:] PLAUTUS. *Comoediae*. Padua: Comino, 1725. [WITH:] GAIUS LUCILIUS. Satyrarum. Padua: Comino, 1735. [WITH:] QUINTILIAN. De institutione oratoria. Padua: Comino, 1736, 2 volumes. [WITH:] MACROBIUS. Quae extant omnia. Padua: Comino, 1736. The five Comino editions in a total of 6 volumes, 8vo (188 × 115 mm), with printer’s marks on the title pages. 18 volumes in all. Uniform late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century full vellum, with gilt-lettered spine labels and gilt ornaments. Sold as not collated and subject to further examination for defects. (18)
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