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Legatura - Orazio

Horace, de la traduction de Mr de Martignac, avec des remarques, 1678

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€ 300 - 500

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€ 490

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Paris J.-B. Coignard, 1678. In 12th. 2 vols. On the title page of the first volume, a chalcographic frieze, a small head of the arms of the dedicatee of the work, on the endpapers glued ex libris engraved with the motto "Il più bel fior ne cogli", in both volumes some slight stains and burnishing, binding  in red morocco with decoration embossed in gold, frames on the plates and at the corners festoons of leaves and crowned monogram "Va" - Vittorio Amedeo, in the center of the field the arms of the House of Savoy, on the spine with 4 raised bands title of the work, monogram of Vittorio  Amedeo, golden cuts,  on the front plates supralibros Caissotti (from Chiusano), defects on the headphones and on the hinge.


Specialist Notes

First edition of the French prose translation by Étienne Algay de Martignac, accompanied by the Latin text of Horace's Odes and Epodes. Reglé example. SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTROUS ORIGIN: Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia; Caissotti of Chiusano.