MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius.
Quae exstant omnia, diligentissime emendata, et cum optimis editionibus collata, ut ex praefatione manifestum.
Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1736. 8vo. With engraved device on title-page, 5 woodcuts in text and woodcut arms above the colophon. Contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco (goatskin), each board with a large centre-piece in a panel design, gilt and gauffered edges, traces of clasps. XXXIX, [1], 640, 85, [2], [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,250
Collected works of the Roman author Macrobius, active in the fifth century, in contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco. "The basis is the text of Gronovius, ... The notes of Pontanus and Obsopoeus are added, with an account ... of the use of the works of Macrobius, and of the best editions of his text" (Dibdin).
With the bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck. Binding slightly rubbed and part of the tooling oxidized, but otherwise still good. Internally in very good condition. Brunet III, col. 1286; Graesse IV, p. 330; ICCU 008758; cf. Dibdin II, p. 221 (1737 Padua ed.).
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