Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS; and PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated . . . by Barten Holyday, D.D. 4 engraved plates; numerous woodcut and engraved text illustrations. Title and next leaf ruled in red. [12], 341, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacks final leaf with longitudinal title on verso. Folio, 287x191 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents generally clean, lower outer corner of preliminary a2 torn and restored with text loss, paper crack in blank gutter of K4, small hole in T3 touching a few letters. Oxford: W. Downing for F. Oxlad Senior et al., 1673

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first combined edition in english of the satires of Juvenal and Persius, with extensive illustrated commentary. Wing J1276.