PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Satyrarum liber I [and] Decimus Junius JUVENALIS. Satyrarum lib. V, Paris: Robert Estienne, 1585, 8°, printer's device to title (library stamps to verso of title, G3, N6, T7 & V4, slight dampstaining to lower margin of some leaves, library mark to rear free endpaper, still good & clean), 19th-century German red morocco gilt, gilt inner dentals (head of spine scuffed, corners slightly bumped), g.e. [Adams P747; Schreiber 258] Provenance: "Berliner Stadtbibliothek - Vermächnis von Dr. Georg August Freund."

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PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Satyrarum liber I [and] Decimus Junius JUVENALIS. Satyrarum lib. V, Paris: Robert Estienne, 1585, 8°, printer's device to title (library stamps to verso of title, G3, N6, T7 & V4, slight dampstaining to lower margin of some leaves, library mark to rear free endpaper, still good & clean), 19th-century German red morocco gilt, gilt inner dentals (head of spine scuffed, corners slightly bumped), g.e. [Adams P747; Schreiber 258] Provenance: "Berliner Stadtbibliothek - Vermächnis von Dr. Georg August Freund."

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Schreiber: "The first really important edition of Satires of Persius and Juvenal, including for the first time the ancient scholia and glosses of both authors. Pierre Pithou was enabled to publish these improved texts thanks to a 9th-century manuscript (written in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch) given to him by his brother François..."

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