Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS; and PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. Jun. Juvenalis Satyrae XVI. A. Persii Satyrae VI. 150, [2] pages. Ruled in red throughout. Small 8vo, old red morocco, rebacked in the early 19th-century, edges rubbed; contents; blank upper outer corner excised from title and preceding flyleaf. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1544

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"The text is based on new collations of ancient manuscripts, whose variant readings are recorded in an appendix; this in fact the earliest attempt at printing variant readings in an edition of Juvenal and Persius"--Schreiber 81. With the signed collation note of the classical scholar Henry Drury dated Harrow 1819.