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Lot 122
Sale 588 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 13, 2018
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Analecta veterum poetarum Graecorum. Richard Brunck, editor. Strasbourg: Heitz for Bauer and Treuttel, [1772-1776].
3 volumes, 8vo (208 x 119 mm). Engraved titles by Weis in Latin, 3 folding printed tables; text in Greek, Brunck's notes in Latin. Later blue straight-grained morocco, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of Athens depicting the Temple of Jupiter, the Acropolis, and the Temple of Theseus; quarter blue levant folding cases. Provenance: James Devereux Hustler (armorial bookplate); Ambrose Weston (signature, letter tipped in to vol. I). Brunet I:308.

