Author: SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS.
Title: Opera, Iac. Sirmondi cura & studio recognita, notisque illustrata.
Description: Paris, Sébastien & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1652. 2. ed. 4to. (25x19cm). [xvi], 418, [18=index], 168, [16=index] pp. With 1 large and 3 small numismatic engravings. Speckled calf, gilt spine with morocco title-piece; gilt board edges; marbled edges. (tiny hole in title-page; small strip of upper margin p.3 repaired; small waterstain on front margin p. 85 of the Notes) Good copy with ample margins. ¶ "Beste Ausg." (Ebert 798); "Bonne édition, dont il y a du Gr. Pap." Curante Ph. Labbeo. (Brunet V.373). "Sirmond's work, which passed through later editions, is an example of seventeeth-century scholarship at its best, and the notes are excellent." (Delphi complete works of Sidonius Apollinaris, online bibliography). Jacques Sirmond (Riom 1559 - Paris 1651) was one of the most learned Jesuits of his time. This edition of Sidonius' letters and poems was later incorporated in Sirmond's Oeuvres. (Sommervogel VII.1237).

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