Pindar (c. 522-c. 446 B.C.) Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Edited by Robert Welsted (1671-1735) and Richard West (1672-1716)

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Pindar (c. 522-c. 446 B.C.) Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Edited by Robert Welsted (1671-1735) and Richard West (1672-1716) Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1697. Folio, large paper copy, ruled in red throughout, parallel text in Greek and Latin throughout, the Latin version by Nicolas Le Sueur (1545-1594); illustrated with engraved frontispiece and title vignette by Burghers; with a handwritten literary specimen from Pindar in Greek and Latin by penman and schoolmaster John Thomasen (1686-1740) added before the title, dated 1724, and a notice of Thomasen's life laid in, ex libris Lord Clare, with his bookplate and that of Henry Richards Luard inside the front board, with a note in Luard's hand noting that he purchased this copy from Lord Clare's sale in 1886; bound in full speckled calf, armorial binding with very large gilt-tooled coat of arms on both boards, rebacked, 14 1/2 x 9 in.
Estimate $300-500

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