Estimate € 1,000 - 1,500
Sold € 1,300
Auction: 21 January 2020 at 15:00
OVIDIO (43 a.C.-17? d.C.) - TEMPESTA, Antonio (1555-1630) - Metamorphoseon, sive transformationum libri quindecim. Amsterdam: Guglielmo Giansonio, [ca. 1606?]. A work difficult to be found complete with its 150 numbered plates. Oblong 4to (178 x 188mm). Engraved title and 150 numbered plates (some light soiling and staining, few plates reinforced at verso with applied paper, few small marginal clean tears). Contemporary limp vellum (without ties). Provenance: Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774, French collector; ownership inscription on title).
Estimate € 1,000 - 1,500