C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii Propertii umbri libri IIII. C N. Cornelii Galli fragmenta. Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530 b/wMartialis, Marcus Valerius (40- ca. 100)Epigrammaton Libri XIIIIBasel: Henricus Petri, 1530
Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530.
Price: $2,800.00
Octavo: 15 x 9.7 cm. 2 vols. bound together: I. (Catullus et al.) [8], 192 lvs. Collation: a-z8, A-B8; II. (Martial) [231] lvs. Collation: A-Z8, Aa-Ff8
TWO SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS.
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of both works and some underscoring in the Tibullus.
The three most famous Roman elegiac poets together with the great Roman satirist.
VD 16 C 1740 and M 1163