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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS.
Poemata. Novis scholiis illustrata.
[40], 419,
77, [24]
pages * HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS.
Poemata, novis scholiis et
argumentis illustrata.
[16], 135, [1], 134, [2], 112, [24]
pages, including blank I4 and final
blank. Together, 2 volumes in one, both edited with notes and essays by Henri Estienne,
and ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 178x105 mm, 17th-century calf with unidentified gilt
arms on covers, rebacked retaining original backstrip, cover corners restored, hinges rein-
forced with cloth tape; light foxing on opening leaves of the first work. 19th-century
Chatsworth Library bookplate of the Dukes of Devonshire.
[
Geneva: Henricus Stephanus], 1583;
[
Geneva: Henricus Stephanus, 1575]
[1,500/2,500]
Second Estienne edition of Virgil and
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION
of Horace, both quite scarce.
Renouard (Estienne) I, 150(2), 142(5); Schreiber 211, 193.
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS; and FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS.
M. Vitruvii de architectura libri decem . . . additis Julii Frontini de aque-
ductibus libris.
Title in red and black within woodcut historiated ornamental border;
woodcut text illustrations throughout. 195, [16], 2-22 leaves. 8vo, 157x96 mm, early 19th-
century red pebble-grain morocco, spine darkened, raised bands rubbed; margins trimmed
not affecting text, contents clean.
[
Lyon: Guillaume Huyon], 1523
[2,500/3,500]
Lyon counterfeit edition, with illustrations copied from the 1513 and 1522 Florentine Giunta
editions and the 1521 first edition in Italian; state of the title with “proter” (for propter) on the
second line from the bottom. Renouard, page 315(59); Renouard (Giunta), page xlvii; New
UCLA 1172; Baudrier VII, 167; Fowler 397. From the library of the art historian Kenneth
Clark, Lord Clark of Saltwood (1903-83), with his bookplate.
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