Lot 25
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BASKERVILLE PRESS -- HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1770. 4º (292 x 215mm). Engraved title-vignette, engraved frontispiece by Henriquez and 4 plates by Godfroy, Voyer and others after Gravelot. Contemporary red morocco, gilt border à la Du Seuil round sides, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: H. Tronchin (bookplate). Gaskell *39; Cohen-de Ricci 499.
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BASKERVILLE PRESS -- HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1770. 4º (292 x 215mm). Engraved title-vignette, engraved frontispiece by Henriquez and 4 plates by Godfroy, Voyer and others after Gravelot. Contemporary red morocco, gilt border à la Du Seuil round sides, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: H. Tronchin (bookplate). Gaskell *39; Cohen-de Ricci 499.

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BASKERVILLE PRESS -- HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1770. 4º (292 x 215mm). Engraved title-vignette, engraved frontispiece by Henriquez and 4 plates by Godfroy, Voyer and others after Gravelot. Contemporary red morocco, gilt border à la Du Seuil round sides, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: H. Tronchin (bookplate). Gaskell *39; Cohen-de Ricci 499.

CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772. 4º (291 x 230mm). (Title somewhat browned.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt border round sides à la Du Seuil, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. First Baskerville edition. Gaskell *44. And Juvenal from the same press (Gaskell *15).
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