Accession number:
PML 9905
Published:
Romae : [s.n.], 1781.
Description:
[8], lx p. : ill. ; 46 cm.
Notes:
Portrait of Anacreon on first leaf.
With 39 hand-colored engravings, vignettes and tail-pieces by Pietro Leone Bombelli (1737-1809), Camillo Tinti (ca. 1738-ca. 1796) and Stefano Piale (ca. 1753-1835).
Edited by Guiseppe Spalletti, with the Latin prose translation of Joshua Barnes.
With an engraved facsimile, p. 676-691 of the Palatine manuscript containing these odes.
Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns.
Binding:
English 18th-century red morocco.
Variant Title:
Symposiaka hēmiambia
Provenance:
Dedication to Gabriel Antonio de Bourbon, infante of Spain (1752-1788), son of Carlos III, with his coat of arms (title-vignette) and portrait in color after Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779).
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