HORACE [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Les oeuvres
Chez Toussainct Quinet|à Paris 1652|11.50 x 17.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of Michel de Marolles' translation, bilingual, with French alongside the Latin version. A frontispiece with a medallion portrait and legend in volume I, a second allegorical frontispiece in volume II.
Contemporary soft vellum binding. Smooth spine with pen-and-ink title at head. Soiling to spines and boards. Several gatherings loosened in volume I, one in volume II. One perforation to title page of volume I, due to a crossed-out passage in margin. Leaf 131 in volume I partially detached. Leaves 151, 153 detached. Leaf 193 detached. Good copy, fresh.
Manuscript ownership inscription: Valmon de La Giraudière.
The first volume contains the Odes and Epodes and the se
Contemporary soft vellum binding. Smooth spine with pen-and-ink title at head. Soiling to spines and boards. Several gatherings loosened in volume I, one in volume II. One perforation to title page of volume I, due to a crossed-out passage in margin. Leaf 131 in volume I partially detached. Leaves 151, 153 detached. Leaf 193 detached. Good copy, fresh.
Manuscript ownership inscription: Valmon de La Giraudière.
The first volume contains the Odes and Epodes and the se
€650