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Title: Illias, Odyssea. 4 parts bound in 2 volumes. Illias. Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non Planius ac Melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit. Odyssea . Rursus, quid virtus et quid sapientia possit, utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssem.
Description: .: Glasguae (Glasgow), in Aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi, 1756 - 1758 , bound in 2 folio volumes, 36,5 x 235 cm, half tiltle + title + xi p + 312 pp , half title + title + 336 pp ; half title + title + (4)(2 blank) + 297 pp , halftitle + title + 336 pp (including 2 pp with index scriptorum). Uniform dark green long grain morocco, raised back decorated with thin and thick gilt fillets, gilt title, both covers with gilt rectangle consisting of 8 gilt fillets, all edges gilt, binding signed and dated; ''bound by Zaehnsdorf 1899'', gilt signature on the doublure margin. With the printed ex-libris of C.S. Acherson. Some corners very slightly bumped, a few inappreciable scratches on the covers but a truly magnificent copy in a signed master binding. A stunning book and certainly the highlight of Scottish 18th century typography. (Gaskell 319). .

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