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Opera
by Ausonii, D. Magni; (Ausonius, Decimus Magnus); Floridus, Julianus and Souchay, Joannes-Baptista (Notes etc.)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Parisiis (Paris): Jacobi Guerin, 1730. lxv, [1], 400, [2], 401-684pp, [2], 1-16pp, [152], contemporary full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, author/title label to second panel, remaining panels with triple fillet frames, small roundels to corners and central fleuron device, gilt roll to board edges. Chipped to spine ends with small amounts of loss exposing end bands, joints with Japanese paper repairs, rubbed to extremities, corners bumped and worn. Internally lightly browned and lightly foxed, but generally fairly clean. Engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate of nine medallions. Ausonius was a Roman poet and teacher, born in c.310. Though admired by contemporaries, his poetry is not generally well regarded. Gibbon for example proclaimed that 'the poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age', but his works have retained interest for other reasons, including references to wine making (he was a native of Bordeaux) and the use of a water mill to cut marble (Wikipedia). The Delphin edition, with notes by Julien Fleury and Joannes-Baptista Souchay, text in Latin. Schweiger I:22; Moss I:216 and Brunet I:574 describing this as an "edition la plus estimee". First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Mathey. 4to.
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- Zetetic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003577
- Title
- Opera
- Author
- Ausonii, D. Magni; (Ausonius, Decimus Magnus); Floridus, Julianus and Souchay, Joannes-Baptista (Notes etc.)
- Illustrator
- Mathey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Jacobi Guerin
- Place of Publication
- Parisiis (Paris)
- Date Published
- 1730
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Mathey, Ausonius, Latin Poetry, Poetry, Wine, Classics, Delphin, Ebay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics and Ancient History;
- Size
- 4to
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- Foxed
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