Author: Horace
Title: Oeuvres D&Apos;Horace En Latin Et En Francois
Description: London, A. Hambourg, 1803. Leather. A scarce ten volume collection of Horace's works in French and the original Latin, bound in contemporary leather. Horace (65-8BC) was a Roman lyric poet writing during Augustus' reign. He wrote plentiful works, including his Odes, Satires, Epistles, Epodes and Ars Poetica. His work strongly influenced contemporaries such as Ovid and Propertius, as well as later writers such as Petrarch, Dante, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Edward FitzGerald, and W. H. Auden. He is also held as being the first autobiographer in the world.With historical and critical commentaries by Andre Dacier (1751-1822), a French scholar of classics. His other editions included those of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, Aristotle's Poetics, Hippocrates and Plutarch's Lives.Complete in ten volumes.In the original Latin as well as in French.A scarce work. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some larger instances of rubbing to the tail of the first volume and to volume II; otherwise just a little general wear and rubbing. Volume VI is lacking the gilt spine label. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with just the odd mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Horace Works of Horace Latin Literature Works of Horace Not Stated
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Title: Oeuvres D&Apos;Horace En Latin Et En Francois
Description: London, A. Hambourg, 1803. Leather. A scarce ten volume collection of Horace's works in French and the original Latin, bound in contemporary leather. Horace (65-8BC) was a Roman lyric poet writing during Augustus' reign. He wrote plentiful works, including his Odes, Satires, Epistles, Epodes and Ars Poetica. His work strongly influenced contemporaries such as Ovid and Propertius, as well as later writers such as Petrarch, Dante, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Edward FitzGerald, and W. H. Auden. He is also held as being the first autobiographer in the world.With historical and critical commentaries by Andre Dacier (1751-1822), a French scholar of classics. His other editions included those of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, Aristotle's Poetics, Hippocrates and Plutarch's Lives.Complete in ten volumes.In the original Latin as well as in French.A scarce work. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some larger instances of rubbing to the tail of the first volume and to volume II; otherwise just a little general wear and rubbing. Volume VI is lacking the gilt spine label. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with just the odd mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Horace Works of Horace Latin Literature Works of Horace Not Stated
Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 775R54
- Book number: 775R54
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