Horace. Opera, London, aeneis Tabulis incidit Iohannes Pine, 1733-37, 2 vols., 8vo, first edition with 'Post. est' on the medal of Caesar (vol. II, p.108), all engraved with 166 vignettes from gems and other antiquities (occasional light soiling), modern brown straight-grained morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, g.e., earlier morocco-backed solander box. [Brunet III, 320: 'remarquable par l'élégance des ornements, et la correction en est plus exacte qu'on le croit généralement'; Lowndes 1113; Union Catalog of Horace 506] (2)

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Horace. Opera, London, aeneis Tabulis incidit Iohannes Pine, 1733-37, 2 vols., 8vo, first edition with 'Post. est' on the medal of Caesar (vol. II, p.108), all engraved with 166 vignettes from gems and other antiquities (occasional light soiling), modern brown straight-grained morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, g.e., earlier morocco-backed solander box. [Brunet III, 320: 'remarquable par l'élégance des ornements, et la correction en est plus exacte qu'on le croit généralement'; Lowndes 1113; Union Catalog of Horace 506] (2)

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