Lot 869
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QUINTILIANUS. De institutione oratoria ll. XII/Declamationes XIX majores, et (…) CXLV minores et Calpurnii Flacci Declamationes. Cum notis (...) cur. P. Burmanno. Leyden, J. de Vivie, 1720. 2 vols. (68), 1178, (50); (4), 838, (132) pp. W. engr. front. by F. Bleiswijck & 2 ti-vign. by the same. 4°. Cont. cf. w. blindtooled decoration of an elephant with crowned trunk, ribbed and gilt spines. (Spines loosening, top of spines dam., rubbed on the edges, marg. waterst. & browned, waterstain to upper half front. and ti-p.).
Previously owned by Bolle Willum Luxdorph (1716-1788), who had had the books luxuriously bound and marked with his seal: an elephant with crowned trunk. Luxdorph was a productive writer and politician, but is most well-known for his vast collection of books. He held some 15000 titles, of which 900 offer insight into a unique period in history: the Danish declaration of Free Press in 1770. - Schweiger II, 844 & 849; Dibdin II, 368.€ 200
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