Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ENNIUS, QUINTUS. Quae supersunt fragmenta. Edited with notes and biography by Girolamo Colonna. 4to, old limp vellum, spine darkened; scattered foxing. Naples: Orazio Salviani, 1590

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first colonna edition and first separate printing of the surviving writings of Ennius (239-169 B.C.), "the founder of Roman poetry, the forerunner of both Virgil and Lucretius" (Sarton). They had previously appeared in the 1564 Fragmenta poetarum veterum Latinorum edited by Robert and Henri Estienne. Adams E184; Sarton I, 187; Schweiger II, 343.