Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera.

Horace; Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Parisiis : E typographia regia, 1642

Folio, 38 cm. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt ruled. Rebacked in later leather. Raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt. Title-frontispice engraved by Mellan after Poussin, 321 pp. Splitting to front joint. Marginal dampstaining, red pencil underlining to a few pages, contemporary ink marginalia on I4 and K1, faded. Scattered spotting. Text in Latin. "A very magnificent and rare edition; it is one of those which were executed at the Louvre." - Moss II, page 15. Goldsmith, 601; Brunet III 317.

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