[PETRONIUS]. Titi Petronii Arbitri eqvitis Romani Satyricon, cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolae de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia commentariis, & notis doctorum virorum illustrata. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. Amstelodami [Amsterdam], typis Ioannis Blaeu, M DC LXIX [1669].
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[PETRONIUS]. Integrum Titi Petronii arbitri Fragmentum, Ex antquo codice Traguriensi Romae exseriptum; cum Apologia Marini Statilii I. V. D. Editio Secunda, quod ad Apologiam auctior & curatior. Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Ioannem Blaeu, M DC LXXI. [1671].
Hardcover. First complete edition thus. Two works bound in one volume, as issued. Thick octavo (190 x 130mm), pp. [36], 558, [42], 168, [8]; [8], 70, 31, [1]. Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁸ 3*² A-2O⁸ 2P⁴ 3A-3L⁸ (2M2-2m5 signed 3M2-3M5); [2*²] A-G⁸ . Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with four raised bands, paper title label, blind ruled border to boards, page edges speckled, separate pagination, text in double columns, Latin language interspersed with occasional words and paragraphs in Greek and Arabic, roman letter, title vignettes, capitals initials, some diagrams in the text, chapter tail-pieces, terminal blank present. Binding secure with slight splits to joints, rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, lacking engraved plate by Romeyn de Hooghe to first book and initial blank, corner repair to first title and *3, contents largely clean with only occasional minor marks, signed Alexander Hamilton to title page. A sound copy of this rare and important edition.
Notes: The edition of the Tragurian fragment as well as the Apologia are by Giovanni Lucio, who here assumes the name of Marino Statileo, the original discoverer of the ms. The Apologia has been erroneously attributed to Pierre Petit, being confused with Petit's Responsio ad Wagenseilii et Valesii Dissertationes, which was published under the same pseudonym in 1666. "Dr Harwood says that the Amsterdam edition of 1669 is one of the most beautiful and correct of the octavo Variorum classics. Antonius particularly commends the edition of 1669 for its elegance and correctness." Schweiger II, p. 723. Graesse V, 238-9. Dibdin II, p. 276. Cf. Bibl. Soc., London, v. 10, p. 172.
