1650 Rare Latin Book - OVID Metamorphoses - Metamorphoseon libri XV. cum notis Th. Farnabii

 

Author : OVID - Publius Ovidius Naso; Thomas Farnaby.
Title : Metamorphoseon libri XV. cum notis Th. Farnabii.
Language : Text in Latin.
Publisher : Amstelaedami, typis Ioannis Blaeu, sumptibus Societatis, 1650). Complete 15 books of the Metamorphoses.
Size : 5.5 " X 3.5 "
Pages : 380 pages
Binding : Very good full calf binding (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed)  under a removable protective mylar cover .
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing, handwritten exlibris of Louis DE BROGLIE  - French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory- and exlibris of Bibliotheque F. Renard on first endpaper).
Illustrations: Including a nice illustrated title page.

Estimate: (USD 300 - USD 1000)

The book : Rare and nice 17th century edition of The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōseōn librī: "Books of Transformations") --a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

The author : Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.