May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoseon libri XV. Edited by Thomas Farnaby. 15 engraved plates by Salomon Savery after Frantz Clein. [8], 88, [2] pages, including engraved additional title and portrait of Ovid. Folio, 280x191 mm, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt with roan lettering piece, small hole in front joint; clean tear in portrait, fore edge reinforced on verso, small piece torn from outer margin of plate facing page 49, light marginal dampstaining toward end, free endpapers trimmed at top and bottom. Early Jesuit ownership inscription on additional title, old stamp on letterpress title. Paris: Gilles Morel, 1637

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First French edition of Farnaby's annotated Metamorphoses, with illustrations from the 1632 edition of the English translation by George Sandys.