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SUETONIUS, Caius

[Opera] Edited and annotated by F. van Oudendorp

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden)
Samuel Luchtmans
1751

€240 - €360

8vo, (40), 1024, (36) pp., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, 12 plates. With the prize leaf awarded in 1767 to Theodorus De Smeth. Contemporary vellum SCHOOLPRIZE BINDING with the gilt coat of arms of THE HAGUE on both cover, slightly rubbed. We add: CALLIMACHUS. Hymni, epigrammata, et fragmenta. Edited T.G. Graevius. Utrecht, François Halma / Willem vande Water, 1697. 2 vol. in-8vo, engraved frontisp., title printed in red and black, engraved title vignette, foxing in vol. 2. Contemporary vellum bindings. A monument of classical scholarship with Spanheim's very large commentary taking up the whole of the 2nd vol. (together: 3)

Ref. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, vol. IIA, p. 21 "It represents Pallas Athena, harnessed and helmeted, accompanied by her owl and with a lance in her right hand and a shield in her left. The Hague stork is shown on the shield" Ref. Dibdin II, p.443 and I, 368-9

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