Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Mirandula (Mirandola), Octavianus (Ottaviano). Illustrium poetarum flores. Cum indice.

With woodcut title vignette. 687 pp. 12mo. Contemp. blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards and three raised bands. 1 clasp (of 2). – Antwerp, Johannes Beller, 1563.

One of several 16th-century editions of Ottaviano Mirandola’s selection of Antique poetry from authors like Vergilius, Ovidius, Horatius, Iuvenalis, Persius, Lucanus, Seneca, Boetius, Plautus, Terentius, Lucretius, Martialis, Sillius, Italicus, Statius, C. Valerius Flaccus, Manilius, Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Claudianus, Ausonius, Tit. Calphurnius, Petronius Arbiter, Cornelius Gallus, or Paulinus. – Clean copy in a very handsome contemporary binding. Lacking 1 clasp. – Best.-Nr. 27465