MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius

In-16mo, 475 - [5] pp, woodcut printer's device on title-page. Ms. ex-libris on title-page and on verso of title-page. Some underlinings and annotations. Martial (ca. 38 AD- ca. 102 AD), a Latin poet from Hispania, satirises city life, women, objects, scandalous activities of his acquaintances etc. Ref. Adams M 708 Followed by: Jean-Jacques BOISSARD. Ioan. Iacobi Boissarti Vesuntini Poemata. Epigrammatum, Elegiarum, Epistolarum. Basel, [Thomas Guarin], 1574. In-16mo, 127 - [1] ff. Woodcut title-vignette. Very scarce first edition of this neo-Latin poetry. Ref. VD16 B 6460. Both books together in a hardboard binding (leather imitation) from circa 1800, red edges, red title piece on spine