Null [LONGUS]. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S.L. [Paris], 1745.

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[LONGUS]. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S.l. [Paris], 1745. Small in-8, edition illustrated with a title frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coypel, 4 headbands, 28 plates hors texte engraved by Audran after Philippe d'Orléans, and 4 culs-de-lampe by Cochin. Reprint in in-8 format of the "Du Régent" edition, with the addition of a 29th engraving "aux petits pieds", found in only a few copies of the 1718 edition. Bound in full contemporary speckled calf, triple filleting on the boards, smooth spine decorated. Bookplate Desloges, handwritten bookplate Caron. (upper headband missing, beginning of a crack and small loss to a spine). Also included: [LONGUS]. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S. l., 1751. Small in-8 illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 hors-texte engravings. Bound in full contemporary marbled basane, 5-ribbed spine. Ex-libris Barry Brown. (upper margin of frontispiece cut out). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio

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[LONGUS]. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S.l. [Paris], 1745. Small in-8, edition illustrated with a title frontispiece engraved by Audran after Coypel, 4 headbands, 28 plates hors texte engraved by Audran after Philippe d'Orléans, and 4 culs-de-lampe by Cochin. Reprint in in-8 format of the "Du Régent" edition, with the addition of a 29th engraving "aux petits pieds", found in only a few copies of the 1718 edition. Bound in full contemporary speckled calf, triple filleting on the boards, smooth spine decorated. Bookplate Desloges, handwritten bookplate Caron. (upper headband missing, beginning of a crack and small loss to a spine). Also included: [LONGUS]. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S. l., 1751. Small in-8 illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 hors-texte engravings. Bound in full contemporary marbled basane, 5-ribbed spine. Ex-libris Barry Brown. (upper margin of frontispiece cut out). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio

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