Claudianus / Heinsius - Operae Quae Exstant - 1716

Elegant eighteenth-century pocket edition of the works of the Latin poet Claudian, a central figure of late antique literature, here presented in the famous philological revision by Nicola Heinsio, one of the most important humanist scholars of the seventeenth century.

Claudianus, Quae exstant, Venice, Nicola Pezzana, 1716.

PP.: 261, (3), COMPLETE. The volume is embellished with a figurated frontispiece, of great visual impact, with a mythological scene.

Copy with pages in overall good to very good condition, with natural browning. Usual signs of time usage.

Volume bound in full contemporaneous parchment. The spine bears the title in ink, framed by simple horizontal rules. Flyleaves white.