Lot 119
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OVIDIUS NASO (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Las transformaciones. Antwerp: Pedro Bellero, 1595. 8° (158 x 92mm). Title device, 175 woodblocks. (Without two final blanks, small hole to M2 affecting a few letters, some browning and soiling.) 18th-century calf, covers and spine decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges (joints rubbed, tail of spine chipped). Provenance: J.R. Crawford (ownership inscription) -- a few contemporary annotations -- purchased from Puvill, 1946.
OVIDIUS NASO (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Las transformaciones. Antwerp: Pedro Bellero, 1595. 8° (158 x 92mm). Title device, 175 woodblocks. (Without two final blanks, small hole to M2 affecting a few letters, some browning and soiling.) 18th-century calf, covers and spine decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges (joints rubbed, tail of spine chipped). Provenance: J.R. Crawford (ownership inscription) -- a few contemporary annotations -- purchased from Puvill, 1946.

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OVIDIUS NASO (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Las transformaciones. Antwerp: Pedro Bellero, 1595. 8° (158 x 92mm). Title device, 175 woodblocks. (Without two final blanks, small hole to M2 affecting a few letters, some browning and soiling.) 18th-century calf, covers and spine decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges (joints rubbed, tail of spine chipped). Provenance: J.R. Crawford (ownership inscription) -- a few contemporary annotations -- purchased from Puvill, 1946.

Jorge de Bustamante's translation accompanied in this edition by a fine series of woodcuts, derived from Virgil Solis. Peeters-Fontainas 1014; Palau XII, 207482.

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