Lot 33
  • 33

Greek books--Apollonius Rhodius.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Argonautica (edited by R.F.P. Brunck). Strassburg: Bauer and Treuttel, 1780, 8vo (187 x 106mm.), contemporary citron morocco covers, the cornerpieces and spine in red morocco, overall gilt floral borders and corners, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges
  • Paper
Sophocles and Euripides. Oedipus Tyrannus et... Orestes [Electra et... Andromache]. Strassburg: Johann Heinrich Heitz, 1779, 2 volumes, 8vo (169 x 95mm.), uniform contemporary red morocco, gilt cornerpieces and spines
Homer. Ilias [Greek] and Odusseia [Greek]. London: William Pickering, 1831,  2 volumes, 32mo (108 x 65mm.), nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled paper slipcase, spines slightly faded, slipcase defective
Together 5 volumes, Greek text

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The first work has a distinguished provenance and is finely bound. A pencil note states this is Brunck's own copy, then A.A. Renouard's (with his signature), then William Beckford's.