Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Venice, 1500, later navy morocco gilt, Sunderland copy

Books from the Library of the Earls of Haddington, lots 105-131

VALERIUS FLACCUS, GAIUS

Argonautica. Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 10 June 1500

4to (198 x 131mm.), 72 leaves, a-i⁸, 40 lines, roman type, woodcut initials, ruled in red, eighteenth-century navy morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, gilt endleaves, first leaf repaired in gutter

LITERATURE:

ISTC iv00021500

PROVENANCE:

Earl of Sunderland, removed from Blenheim Palace, without bookplate but with old shelfmark on flyleaf, sale, Puttick & Simpson, March 1883, lot 12670, £4-8-0 to J. Rimell & Son