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D'Espurgata Lezione Tradotti Dall' ab. Raffaele Pastore. Quarta Edizione, Ritoccata dal Tradttore, accresciuta insieme e modificata in parte, e devisa in due Volumi colla giunta Degli Argomenti ed Osservazioni e Note alla piena intelligenza de' passi oscuri e difficili.
by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bassano: Nella Tipografia Remondiniana, 1805. 2 vols. bound as 1, 12mo, pp. [xii], 297, [3], 317, [1]. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rolls and rules, black morocco label, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt. Scattered foxing and spotting, a few ink blots. Rubbed and worn, spine darkened. Bookplate of R.M. Beverley to pastedown, small paper shelf label and ink numeral 6 to spine. A dual-language Latin-Italian edition of the work of three classical lyric poets printed by the Remondini family firm. Library Hub records only the BL in the UK, Worldcat adds 7 Italian institutions and UCLA. This copy belonged to poet and polemicist Robert Mackenzie Beverley (1798-1868), author of several pamphlets on corruption in the Church of England and an 1867 book arguing passionately against Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5646
- Title
- D'Espurgata Lezione Tradotti Dall' ab. Raffaele Pastore. Quarta Edizione, Ritoccata dal Tradttore, accresciuta insieme e modificata in parte, e devisa in due Volumi colla giunta Degli Argomenti ed Osservazioni e Note alla piena intelligenza de' passi oscuri e difficili.
- Author
- Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nella Tipografia Remondiniana
- Place of Publication
- Bassano
- Date Published
- 1805
- Keywords
- Classics Latin
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- Morocco
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- Marbled boards
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Worldcat
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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