10 - PETRONIUS.

PETRONIUS. Petronius in Latin and French. Complete translation based on the manuscript found in Belgrade in 1688. No place, no publisher, 1713. 2 vols. in-12, brown calfskin, double blind-stamped fillet, ribbed spine (contemporary binding). Repeated frontispiece and 7 illustrations (including 2 fold-outs). Scuffs and tears on the endpapers. Unidentified coat-of-arms ex-libris; old handwritten ex-libris on the title pages reading “de Ganeau” (?). Included: BRETON. Illyria and Dalmatia, or the Customs, Practices, and Dress of Their Inhabitants and Those of Neighboring Regions. Translated from the German by Dr. Hacquet. Augmented with a treatise on military Croatia. Paris, Nepveu, 1815, 2 volumes in one in-18 volume, brown half-basane, decorated ribbed spine, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Colas 1372. First edition of the French translation, prepared by the German naturalist and geographer Hacquet; it is illustrated with a frontispiece and 31 hand-colored plates of costumes from the period. Worn copy; binding scuffed, joints split.