Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(PAYNE, ROGER.) HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 227, [1]; 69, [2] * JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS. Satirarum libri V. [40], 126, [2] pages, including final blank * PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. Aulus Persius Flaccus. 23 pages. Together, 3 volumes in one. 12mo, 149x83 mm, later 18th-century dark blue straight-grain morocco by Payne elegantly gilt-tooled to panel design, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in 4 with ornamental tooling in the rest, dark blue morocco doublures with wide frame of floral tools around center panel of onlaid rose-colored paper; scattered minor spotting, pages 92-93 in Juvenal browned. Morocco booklabel of W. A. M. Burden. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1613; 1616; 1614
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Choice classical sammelband from the collection of George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840), sold as lot 2023 in the sale of his White Knights Library on 19 June 1819.