Live auction - Lot 763
Les Métamorphoses, en latin et françois, divisées en XV livres, avec de nouvelles explications historiques, morales & politiques sur toutes les fables, chacune selon son sujet; de la traduction de Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer [...]. Édition nouvelle, enrichie de très-belles figures.
Brussels, Fr. Foppens, 1677
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [14 (of 16)]-1/520-[2]-521/574 [= 572] pp. (marg. damp stains, one large at end, some marg. soiling, occ. marg. tears strengthened, sm. foxing, lower corner and margin of pp. 31-32 repaired, cancel on signature of p. 297).
Mod. half brown shagreen, marbled paper covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (pastedowns and flyleaves renewed).
Nice Brussels edition with parallel text Latin-French (transl. by Pierre Du Ryer), also containing "The Judgment of Paris" and the "Epistles" translated by Renouard. Ill. with copper-engravings, most not signed, but some by a.o. Frederik Bouttats, Peter-Paul and Martin Bouché: title-vignette, armorial headpiece with portrait of dedicatee Charles of Lorraine, and 124 large ill. in-text (1 for "The Judgment of Paris").
Ref. Funck 375. - Brunet IV:285. - Not in Tchemerzine-Scheler, Dibdin.
Lot 763
Les Métamorphoses, en latin et françois, divisées en XV livres, avec de nouvelles explications historiques, morales & politiques sur toutes les fables, chacune selon son sujet; de la traduction de Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer [...]. Édition nouvelle, enrichie de très-belles figures.
OVIDIUS NASO, Publius