Apuleius, Lucius

4to (270 x 212mm.), with 32 additional plates by Antonio Salamanca after Raphael with the captions pasted to each verso, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt by Upham & Beet of New Bond Street, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, extremities slightly rubbed

Rev. Stephen Weston (1747-1830), antiquary and classical scholar, with his signature dated 1796 and morocco booklabel (most of his library was sold by Evans in 1827)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Salamanca (1478-1562) was a Spanish printer and publisher in Rome who worked with the Giunti, Antonio Blado and Antoine Lafréry. He also issued prints with the imprint "Ant. Sal. exc.", most of which were cut by Marcantonio Raimondi.