Search Results: Titles starting with O from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Lugd[uni] Batavorum [Leyden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. First Elzevir Edition. 120 x 71 mm. (4 3/4 x 2 3/4"). Three volumes. Edited by Daniel Heinsius. VERY CHARMING 18TH CENTURY RED MOROCCO, GILT, covers with French fillet border, raised bands with gilt lettering, spine compartments with central floral sprig framed with curling brackets terminating in ivy leaves, spray of daisies on either side, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title page of first volume with engraved ornate frame containing a tondo portrait of Ovid at head, woodcut printer's device, and decorative initials. A few leaves printed in red and black. Willems 317; Rahir 288; Dibdin II, 266-67; Brunet IV, 272 ("bonne édition"); Graesse V, 70. ◆Spine of first two volumes a bit sunned and very lightly rubbed, boards with trivial soiling and chafing, but the very prettily decorated unrestored bindings bright with gilt and still altogether pleasing. First volume with tiny hole to first leaf of text, volumes I and II… Read More