Classics, Elzevirs. Ovid & Heinsius the Elder (Nicolaas,...

Estimate

£100 - £150

Classics, Elzevirs. Ovid & Heinsius the Elder (Nicolaas, editor), [Opera], four volumes only, Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Officinâ Elzevirianâ, 1659-61, Metamorphoses, [xii], 13-356, [10]pp; Notæ in Heroidas, Amorum, Artem Amatoriam, Remedia Amoris, etc., 537, [1]pp; Fasti, Tristia, Ponticæ Epistolæ, et Ibis, [xvi], [2], 3-432pp; Notæ in Metamorphoses, [6], 7-465pp, two letterpress title-pages only, others divisional, finely bound in contemporary French, presumably Parisian, crimson morocco, the covers gilt-ruled with a graduating double-fillet, centred by an armorial supralibros, six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, the rest with cyphers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary tipped-in shelf numbering pieces to each: Z64 - Z67, 12mo; Horace & Bond (John, editor), Quinti Horatii Flacci Poëmata, Amstelodami: Danielem Elzevirium, 1676, engarved title-page, trimmed and laid on a red-ruled sheet, 234pp, later 18th c English calf, gilt-lettered red morocco pieces, 12mo; & Pliny the Elder, C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ, Tomus Tertius, Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1635, letterpress title-page, 582, [17]pp, contemporary vellum over boards, gilt lettered green morocco piece, somewhat sunned, speckled edges, 12mo, (6) 

Provenance: 1st: Louis-Henri de Lomenie de Brienne (1635-1698), his bindings, arms and cypher. 2nd: Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC (1748-1818), Joint Postmaster General (1787–1794), spade shield armorial bookplate to pastedown; later country house shelf numbering, Case 16/Shelf h/No 26. 3rd: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute KG, PC, FSA Scot (1713-1792), British Prime Minister (1762-63), armorial bookplate to verso of title.