85 - OVID.

OVID. Ovid’s *Metamorphoses*, in Latin, translated into French, with notes and historical explanations by Abbé Banier. Amsterdam, Wetstein & Smith, 1732. 2 volumes bound together in 1 large folio volume, red morocco, spine with raised bands richly decorated with floral motifs, wide gilt border framing the covers with a gilt coat of arms at their center, gilt roulette on the fillets and chases, gilt edges (contemporary binding). [2] 4 unnumbered folios, 248 pp., [1] pp. 249–524, 2 unnumbered folios. A beautiful and sought-after edition due to the engravings adorning this translation by Abbé Banier. It is illustrated with a frontispiece by Picart, two fleurons on the title pages by Overbeke, engraved by Malder & Gouwen, a header vignette engraved by Bernaert, a large initial, 124 half-page figures in the text by Lebrun, Leclere, Maas, Picart, Prunt, Romain, Tosca, De Wit, and Wandelaar, engraved by Bouche, Bouttats, Folkema, Gunst, Jungmann, Schenk & Wandelaar, as well as 3 large separate plates, each containing 2 beautiful figures by Lebrun, engraved by Folkema. (Cohen 768; Brunet IV, 285.) A superb copy in period morocco leather bearing the coat of arms of Thibaud de la Brousse de Puyrigard, Marquis of Verteillac, Baron of La Tour Blanche, Lord of Puyrigard and Saint-Martin-Le-Pin (?–1751).