1804 · Posonius [Bratislava]
by FÁBA, Simon (István) (1731-1801)
Posonius [Bratislava]: Georg Aloysius Belnay, 1804. 8vo (193 x 118 mm). 160 pp. Two engraved plates: portraits of the author and of Franciscus Barkóczy, by Sebastian Mansfeld of Vienna. Contemporary marbled sheep, smoooth spine gold-tooled in six compartments, the second with beige calf gilt lettering-piece, floral Kattunpapier endpapers (covers a bit scratched, dent in front cover). Provenance: book label of Edward John Kenney, Canadian classicist. ***
Only Edition, a posthumous collection of previously unpublished Neolatin poems by a Hungarian priest, printed in Bratislava (Pressburg). The verses include a eulogy to the dedicatee, Franciscus (truncated)
Only Edition, a posthumous collection of previously unpublished Neolatin poems by a Hungarian priest, printed in Bratislava (Pressburg). The verses include a eulogy to the dedicatee, Franciscus (truncated)