May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Ovid de Ponto. Containing foure books of elegies. Written by him in Tomos, a citie of Pontus, in the foure last yeares of his life. Printer's woodcut device on verso. [67] (of [68]) leaves; lacks A2 (dedication). Small 8vo, early 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine worn, front cover detached; scattered foxing. London: T. Cotes for Michael Sparke Junior, 1639

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first edition in english, translated by Wye Saltonstall; first issue, with title dated 1639. Pforzheimer 780; STC 18938.