Lot n° 458

PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus.- Publii Auli Persii familiaris explanatio cum Johan Britannici eruditissima interpretatione. Argumenta satyrarum ac prefationis Persiane per Jodocum Badium [...]. Venundantur Lugduni, Petro Ungre et Anthonio Doulcet (Johannis...

Estimation : 200 / 250
Adjudication : 280 €
Description
de Platea et Jacobi Myt, 1510 die vero xx novembris).
In-4° : lxxxiii lvs (wormholes in the text throughout and small in some margins, margins of first lvs repaired, dampstains, rare tears with lack, underlinings and rare marginalia).
Modern binding : threequarter green calf, black paper boards, ribbed spine with blind and gilt fillets and 2 black leather labels encircled with gilt roll-stamps, brown sprinkled edges (edges partly rubbed, handwritten provenance on the upper flyleaf, label stuck on the lower pastedown).
EARLY POST-INCUNABULUM of Persius' Satyres (34-62) with his biography and extensive commentaries by Giovanni Britannico, edited by Josse Bade who added a preface.
Contains also two other prefaces by Filippo Beroaldo and Angiolo Poliziano. The Satyres were first printed at Rome in c. 1470, with Britannicus' notes at Brescia in 1481 and first edited by Badius at Lyon in 1499.
Text printed in italic types with ornemental initials.
# Renouard, Bade, p. 150, n° 10; # STC French 346; # Baudrier I-130; # not in USTC, Adams, Soltész, Machiels.
Post-incunable des Satyres de Perse commentées par Britannico et éditées par Bade. Demi-veau vert à coins moderne (trous de vers dans le texte passim, mouill.).
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