拍品 64
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C.). [The Commentaries.] Quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & Mss optimis collata, recognita & correcta. Edited by Samuel Clarke. London: Jacob Tonson, 1712. 2° (465 x 280 mm). Additional double-page engraved title, portraits of the Duke of Marlborough and Caesar, 6 double-page engraved maps and 78 plates, mostly double-page, numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces and initials. (Plates 33 and 36 split at fold, short tear in plate 30, plate 77 shaved at the fore-margins, a little occasional light discolouration.) Contemporary English red morocco, wide gilt border round sides composed of insects, crowns, semi-circles, stars and other tools, compartments of spine richly gilt, gilt turn-ins, most extremities rubbed. Provenance: John Burgoyne (1722-1792, General; note laid-in recording the provenance, thence by descent to:) -- James Hornby (note laid-in) -- James John Hornby (armorial bookplate, and hi
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CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C.). [The Commentaries.] Quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & Mss optimis collata, recognita & correcta. Edited by Samuel Clarke. London: Jacob Tonson, 1712. 2° (465 x 280 mm). Additional double-page engraved title, portraits of the Duke of Marlborough and Caesar, 6 double-page engraved maps and 78 plates, mostly double-page, numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces and initials. (Plates 33 and 36 split at fold, short tear in plate 30, plate 77 shaved at the fore-margins, a little occasional light discolouration.) Contemporary English red morocco, wide gilt border round sides composed of insects, crowns, semi-circles, stars and other tools, compartments of spine richly gilt, gilt turn-ins, most extremities rubbed. Provenance: John Burgoyne (1722-1792, General; note laid-in recording the provenance, thence by descent to:) -- James Hornby (note laid-in) -- James John Hornby (armorial bookplate, and his manuscript note laid-in).

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CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C.). [The Commentaries.] Quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & Mss optimis collata, recognita & correcta. Edited by Samuel Clarke. London: Jacob Tonson, 1712. 2° (465 x 280 mm). Additional double-page engraved title, portraits of the Duke of Marlborough and Caesar, 6 double-page engraved maps and 78 plates, mostly double-page, numerous engraved headpieces, tailpieces and initials. (Plates 33 and 36 split at fold, short tear in plate 30, plate 77 shaved at the fore-margins, a little occasional light discolouration.) Contemporary English red morocco, wide gilt border round sides composed of insects, crowns, semi-circles, stars and other tools, compartments of spine richly gilt, gilt turn-ins, most extremities rubbed. Provenance: John Burgoyne (1722-1792, General; note laid-in recording the provenance, thence by descent to:) -- James Hornby (note laid-in) -- James John Hornby (armorial bookplate, and his manuscript note laid-in).

GENERAL BURGOYNE'S COPY OF ‘THE MOST SUMPTUOUS CLASSICAL WORK WHICH THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED’ (Lowndes), complete with the double-page plate (no.42) of the wild bull. General Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War. Brunet I, 1546 (‘édition magnifique’); Cohen-de Ricci 222-23; Lowndes I, p.344.
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