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  Elaborately illustrated First pine edition of the complete works of Horace; Alexis de Tocqueville's copy, lengthily inscribed to him by his Father

  HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus (Alexis de Tocqueville).

  Horatii Opera (The Complete Works of Horace).

  John Pine: London, 1733-37.

  First Pine edition of the collected works of ancient Roman poet and political figure Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), "the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved" (Ray). French statesman Alexis de Tocqueville's copy, inscribed to him by his father in Volume I, "Donné à mon fils Alexis le 5 septembre 1822, jour où il a obtenu le prix d'honneur en Rhétorique, le premier prix en version Latine, le second prix en discours Francais, et gratia accessis. Metz, le 5 septembre 1822 le C[om]te de Tocqueville." Alexis de Tocqueville received the gift as 17-year-old student on the occasion of an academic competition at the Lycee Fabert in Metz in which he received the first distinction in Rhetoric, first distinction in Latin translation, and second distinction in French Discourse with great commendation as is noted in the inscription. The leading Roman poet throughout the time of Augustus, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) created an extensive body of poetic works and became a leading spokesman for the Octavian regime after serving as an officer in the republican army during the Battle of Phillippi in 42 BC and befriending Augustus' primary political advisor, Gaius Maecenas. Horace's interrelation of poetry and po...

  Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 81146

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