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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

317

Flacco, Quinto Orazio

Opera, 1733

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 128

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

London, John Pine, 1733-37. In 8th. 2 vols. Antiporta, cartoons, dedications, subscriber lists, portraits, end caps and drop caps, text, all engraved in copper, few slight blooms, contemporary binding in calfskin with double fillet and dotted wheel on the plates, back with 5 nerves embossed in gold, double gusset , dentelles, marbled guard papers, some scratches and peeling, partially detached capitals. Paper bookplate on the counterplate: Charles Arthur Wynne Finch.

Specialist Notes

Famous work entirely engraved in copper in second edition, with the correction on p. 108 of vol. II (potest). Cohen, 497 - Brunet, III, 320.