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Ovid. Libri de Ponto cum luculentissimis commentariis...

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Ovid. Libri de Ponto cum luculentissimis commentariis reverendissimi domini Bartholomaei Merulae. Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1507. In 2nd (295 x 205 mm);LXXXIII [but 78] papers. Vignette depictingJohn the Baptist standing with lamb on title page, typographical mark on colophon (sporadic browning, last blank paper missing.) Back binding in sponged calf, friezes and title in gold on spine (spine anciently rebacked). Very rare second edition after the unobtainable 1480 incunabula edition of this series of elegies written by Ovid during his exile in present-day Romania.