CALLIMACHI CYRENAEI HYMNI: Cum Latina Interpretatione A Viro Cl Ant Mar Salvinio.Accedit Poemation De Coma Berenicis.Adiecit Ang. Mar. Bandinius I.V.D.

Callimachus

Verlag: Typis Mouckianis, Florence, 1763

Beschreibung

8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, thus. A Very Good copy. 8vo., viii, 316 pp. Title page in red and black. Bound in a contemporary Italian binding of speckled calf. Six compartment spine, decorated in gilt, with title on a red morocco label on spine. Boards decorated with an unusual dyed fretwork border, further single lined in gilt. Text block edges stained in green. Marbled end papers. Armorial bookplate. Front joint beginning to crack; rear joint a bit tender. Tips and spine ends lightly worn. **** First edition, thus. The text is from Graevius' edition. The editor is Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803), a respected Italian writer who was the first keeper of the Laurentian Library. He wrote a well known biography of Amerigo Vespucci and a book on the obelisk of Augustus (De Obelisco Augusti, 1750). A Beautiful Florentine printing from the press of Mouckian, with Greek, Latin and Italian texts to the Hymns, followed by various other pieces. OCLC locates 3 copies. Dibdin 4th, I, 371. *** The engraved armorial bookplate of Richard Shuttleworth Streatfield (1805-51) with the motto: Data Fata Sequutus (Fate having been given, it so follows). The Streatfields were an upper middle class family originally from Chiddingstone, Kent, that owned estates in Yorkshire and East Sussex, and whose roots go back to the years of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The family estates were sold in 1937 with the death of the only surviving family member, Anne Streatfield. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002076

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Titel: CALLIMACHI CYRENAEI HYMNI: Cum Latina ...

Verlag: Typis Mouckianis, Florence

Erscheinungsdatum: 1763

Einband: Leather

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No jacket as issued

Auflage: Imperial Edition.