HORACE [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Q. Horatius Flaccus cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Item Petri Nanni Alcmariani in artem poëticam
Ex officina plantiniana • apud Ioannem Moretum|Antverpiae [Antwerp] • (Anvers) [Antwerp] 1608|18.50 x 25 cm|relié
First edition. Large printer's device on the title page and on the verso of the last leaf. Illustrated with a portrait of Torrentius and a second of Horace on copper. Horace's text in italics.
Full marbled blonde sheep binding, early 20th century, pastiche of a 17th-century binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label and black morocco dating label. 2 corners darkened. Lacking at foot of spine.
An edition whose value lies in the commentaries by Laevinius Torrentius (1525-1595) on the odes, satires and epistles, Bishop of Antwerp and scholar, and those by Pierre Nanninck (1500-1557), Dutch scholar native of Alkmaar, who concludes the work by commenting on Hor
Full marbled blonde sheep binding, early 20th century, pastiche of a 17th-century binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label and black morocco dating label. 2 corners darkened. Lacking at foot of spine.
An edition whose value lies in the commentaries by Laevinius Torrentius (1525-1595) on the odes, satires and epistles, Bishop of Antwerp and scholar, and those by Pierre Nanninck (1500-1557), Dutch scholar native of Alkmaar, who concludes the work by commenting on Hor
€700