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INCUNABULA HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) Opera, folio (320 x 220mm.) image 1
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INCUNABULA
HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) Opera, folio (320 x 220mm.)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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INCUNABULA

HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) Opera, 264 leaves, 62 lines, full-page woodcut device on final leaf, scattered single wormholes (quite numerous to opening leaves, diminishing to a couple), extensive early ink annotation on title-page, with occasional marginal annotations in the same hand [ISTC ih00458000; BM V 496; Goff H458], Venice, [Philippus Pincius, for] Benedictus Fontana, 16 February 1495/96; LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS) Pharsalia [commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus], 218 leaves, 62 lines, scattered single wormholes towards the end, with a few elsewhere, wormtrails in lower blank margin of opening leaves (and final leaves of first work), light marginal dampstain to final 2 leaves [ISTC il00307000; BM V523; Goff L307; Hain 10242], Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 20 October 1498, 2 works bound in 1 vol., early blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, some single wormholes, lacks clasps and hasps, upper joint repaired, folio (320 x 220mm.)

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Two incunables, both of classic texts printed in Venice, bound in an early German pigskin binding.

Provenance: Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, bookplate.

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