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HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. (65-8 B.C.). Opera, commentaries by Porphyrion, Mancinellus, Acron and Landinus. Venice: [Philippus Pincius for] Benedictus Fontana, 16 February 1495/6.
Super-chancery 2° (305 x 205mm). Roman and Greek type, white-on-black woodcut initials, initial spaces, guide-letters, some in red, woodcut printer's device on final recto and printed in reverse on verso. (Some light browning and dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum, morocco spine label (some repairs). Provenance: index and other annotations in a contemporary hand -- armorial bookplate of a bishop -- Bibliothèque de Lac de Soiss (library stamp on verso of a2) -- Marquis de Lavigny.
A reprint of Locatellus's 1494 edition. HC *8893; BMC V, 496; BSB-Ink H-369; Polain(B) 1988; Goff H-458.
Super-chancery 2° (305 x 205mm). Roman and Greek type, white-on-black woodcut initials, initial spaces, guide-letters, some in red, woodcut printer's device on final recto and printed in reverse on verso. (Some light browning and dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum, morocco spine label (some repairs). Provenance: index and other annotations in a contemporary hand -- armorial bookplate of a bishop -- Bibliothèque de Lac de Soiss (library stamp on verso of a2) -- Marquis de Lavigny.
A reprint of Locatellus's 1494 edition. HC *8893; BMC V, 496; BSB-Ink H-369; Polain(B) 1988; Goff H-458.
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