OVIDIUS - Opus praeclarum- Nice postincunable, illustrated - 1513

(LITERATURE; CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY; ILLUSTRATED) Publius OVIDIUS NASO (43 BC - AD 17/18)
Pub. Ouidii Nasonis preclarum opus: de nouo impressum, et a mendis castigatum, vna cum figuris ornatum, in quo continentur hij libri partiales, videlicet Liber heroidum epistolarum; Liber Sapphus ; Libellus in Ibin; Cum expositione familiari Antonij Volsci; Ubertini clerici Cresentinatis; Domitij Calderini; & Jod. Badij sigularium interpretum Lugduni a Stephano Gueynard (colophon: Lugduni impressi Per Johannem Thomas Impēsis discreti viri Stephani Gueynard al[ia]'s Pineti Bibliopole et ciuis prefate ciuitatis Lugduni. Anno nostre salutis Millesimo quingentesimo. xiij...)
§ Large 8vo (245x170); [6], CXXXIII leaves, A6, a-q4, r5 (missing r6, blank). Fascinating titlepage printed in red and black,within large woodcut frame and vignette depicting Antonius (Volscus), Ovidius and Hubertinus (clerici Crescentina); woodcut initials, 21 MAGNIFICENT WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT,, full-page diagram of the compass rose on verso of last leaf, first page of each book and verso of leaf CVI (Letter xx) within small decorative woodcut frame., later limp vellum, nice copy on crisp paper
First published in 1500 by Gueynard and again in 1505, 1508 and 1511. Collection of three of Ovid’s works: Epistulae Heroidum (a collection of twenty-one poems in elegiac couplets in the form of letters of famous women to their lovers), the Liber Sapphus (actually the xxi letter of the previous book, of Sappho to Phaon) and the Ibis (an elegiac poem in 644 lines, a curse directed, by means of mythic stories, at a former friend, now an enemy, who is harming Ovid in exile). Comment to the text are by the philologist Antonius Volscus, the Italian philologist, poet, clergyman and professor in Milan and Pavia Hubertinus Clerici Crescentinas (Ubertino Da Crescentino, 1405-1500), the Italian writer and humanist Domitius de Calderiis (c. 1446 - c.1478), and the famous Flemish humanist, printer and editor Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535). One of the rarest editions printed in 16th century, WorldCat records THREE COPIES only in public libraries worldwide.
 OCLC 50978032, 932207543; BAUDRIER, p. 231; RENOUARD Josse... III, p. 103.