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1222 - TIBULLUS, Albius; [MIRABEAU, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de] Elegies of Tibullus. By Mirabeau. With fourteen illustrations. Paris, 46 Rue S. André-des-Arts, Year VI—1798, 3 vols., in-8° (some slight foxing). Glossy blond calfskin signed R[elié] p[ar François] Bozerian the Younger, straight gilt lace edging the covers, smooth spines decorated with gilt grotesque motifs, black title and volume number labels, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges on the endpapers, gilt edges (some minor scuffing, spine very slightly faded, browning along the edges of the white endpapers). A fine copy with wide margins. New edition (orig.: 1795) of Mirabeau’s translation, illustrated with 15 black frontispieces (not 14 as advertised): 2 portraits and 12 plates after Borel, 1 plate after Marillier. Vol. II is followed by “Les Baisers de Jean Second,” and Vol. III by Mirabeau’s “Contes et nouvelles.” Ref. Cp. Cohen 993. Formerly owned by Léon Rattier (1824–1902), a French bibliophile and owner of the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Jean d’Heurs (Lisle-en-Rigault) (ex-libris with coat of arms “Abbatia Janduriarum,” gilded on red leather).
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TIBULLUS, Albius; [MIRABEAU, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de] Elegies of Tibullus. By Mirabeau. With fourteen illustrations. Paris, 46 Rue S. André-des-Arts, Year VI—1798, 3 vols., in-8° (some slight foxing). Glossy blond calfskin signed R[elié] p[ar François] Bozerian the Younger, straight gilt lace edging the covers, smooth spines decorated with gilt grotesque motifs, black title and volume number labels, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges on the endpapers, gilt edges (some minor scuffing, spine very slightly faded, browning along the edges of the white endpapers). A fine copy with wide margins. New edition (orig.: 1795) of Mirabeau’s translation, illustrated with 15 black frontispieces (not 14 as advertised): 2 portraits and 12 plates after Borel, 1 plate after Marillier. Vol. II is followed by “Les Baisers de Jean Second,” and Vol. III by Mirabeau’s “Contes et nouvelles.” Ref. Cp. Cohen 993. Formerly owned by Léon Rattier (1824–1902), a French bibliophile and owner of the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Jean d’Heurs (Lisle-en-Rigault) (ex-libris with coat of arms “Abbatia Janduriarum,” gilded on red leather).
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