Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Ovid's Metamorphoses . . . translated by the Most Eminent Hands [i. e., Dryden, Addison, Congreve, Pope, and Gray]. 18 engraved plates, including additional title and 2 portraits. [6], xx, [4], 548 pages. Folio, 398x245 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, joints and cover edges rubbed, endpapers renewed; occasional toning, scattered marginal spotting and stains, varying offsetting from plates onto facing pages. London: Jacob Tonson, 1717

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first edition of this translation. Case 298; Macdonald 41.