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LOT 400
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[Classical antiquity] P. Terentii Afri Poetae Lepidissimi, Comoediae,

Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenus, Adelphi, Hecyra, Phormio (...). Paris, printed by Benedictus Prevotius by J. de Roigny, 1552, (2),776,(38) p., with (repeated) woodcut illustrations, 17th-century calf with ribbed, gilt back, folio.

Lacks last blank leaf as usual. First and last quire frayed and stained (title page reaffixed to strip); bookblock partly with wormholes in bottom margin. Free endpapers renewed, spine with restorations and back cover affected by damp. Fine mid sixteenth-century edition of the six comedies of Terentius, with the main text and many illustrations centered and flanked by commentaries by Bembo, Donatus, Erasmus, Melanchton, Scaligher and others.

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