
GENERAL AND CONTINENTAL BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 99•
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Les métamorphoses,... avec des remarques, et des explications historiques par M. L'abbé Banier, 2 vol. in one, Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1732
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
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OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)
Les métamorphoses,... avec des remarques, et des explications historiques par M. L'abbé Banier, 2 vol. in one, text in Latin and French in parallel columns, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Picart, half-title in volume 1 (not called for in volume 2), 130 large engraved illustrations after Lebrun, Maas, Picart, Romain and others, some light spotting and toning, contemporary marbled calf, rubbed [Cohen-De Ricci 768, "Magnifique ouvrage"], folio (475 x 300mm.), Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1732