1662 Pub. Ovidii. Nasonis

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding

In the original Latin. 

Volumes I and II only of this three volume work.

First published with contributions from Dutch physician and scholar Cornelis Schrevel [Cornelio Schrevelio] the year prior, 1661. This edition still features the 1661 dates to the engraved title page, but with the letterpress title page of volume I correctly dated 1662, as called for.

Also edited by classical literary scholar Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder, known for collecting Europe's largest private library in the field of classical literature.

Volume I features Ovid's Heroides, a collection of letters from mythological Roman women, and historical figures, to their lovers, while volume II features his 'Metamorphoses'.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to volume I, an engraved title page to each volume, and sixteen further plates to volume II.

Collated, complete.

Former owner's inscription to letterpress title page of volume I.

Armorial bookplates to verso of front free endpaper of each volume.

With the register: *7, 2*3, A-2S8, 2T4, 2V8, 2X; *4, A-3F8, 3G4, 3H8, 3I4

An impressive mid 17th century edition of Ovid's works.