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OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) [Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2) image 1
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) [Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2) image 2
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) [Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2) image 3
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) [Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2) image 4
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OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)
[Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos, [Lyon, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid (2)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)

[Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black with large printer's device, one full-page woodcut, final 2 leaves defective, title and woodcut strengthened with old paper at inner margin, damp-staining to opening leaves, extensive mostly marginal annotations in several early hands in both brown and red ink, a few manuscript manicules, some underlining in red ink, seventeenth century calf, rebacked, worn with some loss to spine [Adams O468], 4to (243 x 170mm.), [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2)

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Provenance: First, John Ernest Hotsun (1877-1944), ownership inscription (1898) inside upper cover; Guy Phillips, bookplate.

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