![OVIDIUS NASUS, Publius. Opera. Bologna: Balthasar Azoguidus, 1480. Chancery 2o. A fragment of the second Azoguidus edition, consisting 12 the Fasti only (quires rr-tt10 uu8 xx-yy10 zz6: leaves 373-436), lacking the last two leaves, supplied in skillful manuscript facsimile, with incorrect colophon. The quire signatures carefully deleted; manuscript title-leaf supplied. (Some marginal staining, repaired tear to folio 377.) 18th-century straight-grained russet goatskin (worn). Provenance: marginalia in an early humanist hand; Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate). All editions from this press, the first at Bologna, are very rare on the market. There are no complete copies of this edition in America (according to Goff): only two fragments, both at Yale, of which one also of the Fasti. Goff O-132; BMC VI, 801. -- [With]: Breviarium Pataviense. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 27 November 1490. Fragment only of the Pars aestivalis. 67](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYE/2001_NYE_08549_0146_000(023451).jpg?w=1)
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OVIDIUS NASUS, Publius. Opera. Bologna: Balthasar Azoguidus, 1480. Chancery 2o. A fragment of the second Azoguidus edition, consisting 12 the Fasti only (quires rr-tt10 uu8 xx-yy10 zz6: leaves 373-436), lacking the last two leaves, supplied in skillful manuscript facsimile, with incorrect colophon. The quire signatures carefully deleted; manuscript title-leaf supplied. (Some marginal staining, repaired tear to folio 377.) 18th-century straight-grained russet goatskin (worn). Provenance: marginalia in an early humanist hand; Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate). All editions from this press, the first at Bologna, are very rare on the market. There are no complete copies of this edition in America (according to Goff): only two fragments, both at Yale, of which one also of the Fasti. Goff O-132; BMC VI, 801. -- [With]: Breviarium Pataviense. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 27 November 1490. Fragment only of the Pars aestivalis. 67 leaves (only). Printed in red and black. Half-calf (worn). (2)