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428 - Ovid. Les Metamorphoses traduites en prose françoise, et de nouveau soigneusement reveues, corrigees en infins endroits, et enrichies de figures à chacune fable. Avec XV. discours contenans l'èxplication morale et historique... 3 Tle. in 1 Bd. Paris, Widow Langelier, 1619. Title, 9 leaves, 466 pages, 6 leaves, pages 1-31, 1 blank leaf, pages 33-40, 1 leaf, pages 41-54, 167 pages (recte 165), 4 leaves, pages 169-212. With 1 engraved title, 1 engraved portrait, 138 text engravings, 49 engraved head vignettes, 48 engraved Initials, 27 engraved cul-de-lampe, and 2 engraved title vignettes. Folio. Contemporary flamed leather binding with red spine label and some re-gilding (rubbed).

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€800 - 1,000

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30.54%

Ovid. Les Metamorphoses traduites en prose françoise, et de nouveau soigneusement reveues, corrigees en infins endroits, et enrichies de figures à chacune fable. Avec XV. discours contenans l'èxplication morale et historique... 3 Tle. in 1 Bd. Paris, Widow Langelier, 1619. Title, 9 leaves, 466 pages, 6 leaves, pages 1-31, 1 blank leaf, pages 33-40, 1 leaf, pages 41-54, 167 pages (recte 165), 4 leaves, pages 169-212. With 1 engraved title, 1 engraved portrait, 138 text engravings, 49 engraved head vignettes, 48 engraved Initials, 27 engraved cul-de-lampe, and 2 engraved title vignettes. Folio. Contemporary flamed leather binding with red spine label and some re-gilding (rubbed). The first illustrated edition with the magnificent title page, engraved by Pierre Firens after D. Rabel and in the translation by Nicolas Renouard. The illustrations by Jean Mathieu, Pierre Firens, Isaac Briot, and Michel Faulte. The separately paginated titles for Part 1: Le Iugement de Paris. Paris, Witwe Langelier, 1618; here supplemented: 'Les abeilles, metamorphose traduitte du III. livre des Georgiques de Virgile' and for Part 2: XV. Discours sur les Metamorphoses d'Ovide. Ibid., 1618. - The engraved title page is trimmed to the border line and mounted on contemporary paper; the two dedication leaves have creases. - A few small, partially backed, edge tears; very few are slightly stained.

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Auction details

Auction 100 (Art & Books)
Saturday, November 21
10:00 AM
Feldstraße 88
24105 Kiel, Germany

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Antiquariat & Auktionshaus Schramm +49 4 31 80 39 23 info@antiquariat-schramm.de
On Drouot for 2 years avec More than 2,000 lots published

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