[Callimachus] - Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato per - Lot 263

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[Callimachus] - Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato per - Lot 263
[Callimachus] - Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato per le auguste nozze della R. Principessa di Parma Carolina Teresa di Borbone con S.A.S. il Principe Massimiliano di Sassonia. Parma nel Regal Palazzo impresso co' tipi Bodoniani. Parma, Giambatista Bodoni, 1792. In-folio bound in full contemporary calf, boards decorated with a triple gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-piece and green publisher's plate, gilt edges, interior roulette - epidermures - [7 ff., fx-title, title, dispatch], IV pp. (to the reader), [3 ff., indication of translator, title and note on the life and writings of Callimachus in Greek], 74 pp. (text of poems and epigrams in Greek), [1 blank f.], [3 ff. title and note on the life and writings of Callimachus in Tuscan], 96 pp. (text of poems and epigrams in Tuscan), [2 ff. sonnet in Tuscan by Vincenzo Jacobacci]. Beautiful edition, given by Bodoni, of Callimachus' poems and epigrams in Greek and Tuscan, published on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Caroline of Bourbon Parma to Prince Maximilian of Saxony. Copy with the engraved arms of the Bourbon-Parme and Saxe families at the head of the dedication. A very fine publishing achievement, ushering in a new era in typography at the dawn of the 19th century.
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