Titi Petronii Arbitri, Equitis Romani, Satyricon

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [13], pp. 299, [1] (blank), [7], [1] (blank). Mottled calf. Gilded spine, gilded boards edges; edges spread in red. Printer's device on title page. Includes initials; headpieces. Manuscript mark on front pastedown recto "O. V1.12," and on verso (other hand): "R VIII 32." Manuscript note on title page: "Est loci S. Maria de Jesu Montisfortini." Stamp 'M.D.I.P.D.R.D.I. C.G."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The rare first edition to incorporate the connective fragments said to have been found at Belgrade in 1688, but in fact forged – that is, probably composed or appropriated from a rhetorical exercise of an amateur classicist (see W. Stolz, Petrons Satyricon und François Nodot: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte