Georg BUCHANAN
Poemata quae extant
Ex Officina Elzeviriana|Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] • (Leyde) [Leiden] 1628|5.50 x 11.20 cm|relié
First Elzevier edition. With title-frontispiece. Minuscule printing.
Later full black sheep binding signed Thouvenin at foot (one of Thouvenin's earliest bindings, in the style of Bozerian his master). Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 small fleurons. Series of fillets at head. Title and date gilt. Gilt fillet frame on boards. Roulette on edges and interior border. Gilt edges. Spine very slightly faded. Handsome copy.
These works of Buchanan contain a paraphrase of the psalms, the tragedies Jephthah and Baptist, followed by translations of Euripides' Medea and Alcestis; the work also contains Franciscanus & fratres; Elegiarum liber; Sylvarum liber; Hendecasyllab[o]n liber; I
Later full black sheep binding signed Thouvenin at foot (one of Thouvenin's earliest bindings, in the style of Bozerian his master). Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 small fleurons. Series of fillets at head. Title and date gilt. Gilt fillet frame on boards. Roulette on edges and interior border. Gilt edges. Spine very slightly faded. Handsome copy.
These works of Buchanan contain a paraphrase of the psalms, the tragedies Jephthah and Baptist, followed by translations of Euripides' Medea and Alcestis; the work also contains Franciscanus & fratres; Elegiarum liber; Sylvarum liber; Hendecasyllab[o]n liber; I
€500