Opera cum Novo Commentario ad Modum Joannis Bond

First edition from the Didot presses of Bond's commentaries. Pages with red borders. Preface in French and text in Latin. Bond's notes are distributed around the text following the model of Renaissance typography.
Publisher's binding in full brown cloth, smooth spine slightly faded, joint cracked one cm at head of lower board, front board hinge split, endpapers and pastedowns darkened as usual.
Very handsome edition of the works of Horace, with typography executed by the Didot workshop in particularly refined lowercase letters. Work illustrated with 10 original photographic vignettes printed in sepia and mounted, two double-page maps and 6 photographic landscape views mounted.
One of the earliest books illustrated with photography: apart from the frontispiece, the 11 wood-engraved vignettes after Barrias and the 2 double-page lithographed plans, the work is illustrated with 6 original photographic views, printed in sepia and mounted hors texte. This edition forms the first title of the collection, followed subsequently by a Virgil and an Anacreon similarly illustrated, and one of the first productions of photographic publishing in France.