Orphée

1829 · 11435 — Lipsiae: Car. Tauchnitii 1829. Hardcover. Good plus. 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Small half leather with marbled covered boards rubbing and chipping to head of spine. Well bound pencil names etc on first blank pages. Back of front cover is a book plate listed in a book on American Ex-Libris plates published in 1895 described the plate "Portrait Plate. Showing a young man holding a book clad in the manner of the studious youth of the early part of the century. Beneath the “Qui Contentus Felix” Happy he who is Content. a nice bit of engraving. This was the plate of G. A. Smith a book lover whose library was sold in NYC some thirty years ago." Contents clean and unmarked. 257 pp. Text in original Greek. <br /> <br/><br/>Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. Car. Tauchnitii hardcover