PROPERTIUS, Sextus. Élégies... traduction de C.L.Mollevaut. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1816. 12° (139 x 87mm). Half-title. Parallel texts in French and Latin. Engraved frontispiece by V.Langlois after Charles-Abraham Chasselat, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL PENCIL AND BROWN WASH DRAWING TO THE FRONTISPIECE, SIGNED AND DATED BY CHASSELAT mounted facing the frontispiece. (Inner margins of all leaves to 122 with small worm-hole.) Mottled sheep gilt. -- J.W. von GOETHE (1749-1832). Werther traduction... par C.Aubry. Paris: Didot jeune, 1797 (vol.I mis-dated MDCCLXCVII). 2 volumes in one, 18° in 6s (150 x 97mm). Half-titles, 6pp. catalogue at end of vol.II. 4 engraved plates by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux after René-Théodore Berthon. Blue straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, pink watered-silk liners, g.e. Provenance: Laurence Currie (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS. Cohen-de Ricci 442. -- J.P.Claris de FLORIAN (1755-1794). Galatée. Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1783. 18° in 6s (125 x 73mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece, 2pp. dedication, portrait of Cervantes and 4 plates by J.B.Guyard after J.Flouest. (Plates lightly spotted). Light brown calf gilt, g.e., by Bozerian. FIRST EDITION THUS. Cohen-de Ricci 399. -- And two others (L.P.M.F.Baour LORMIAN. L'Aminte. Paris: [n.d.]. 12°; another edition of GOETHE'S Werther). (5)

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PROPERTIUS, Sextus. Élégies... traduction de C.L.Mollevaut. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1816. 12° (139 x 87mm). Half-title. Parallel texts in French and Latin. Engraved frontispiece by V.Langlois after Charles-Abraham Chasselat, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL PENCIL AND BROWN WASH DRAWING TO THE FRONTISPIECE, SIGNED AND DATED BY CHASSELAT mounted facing the frontispiece. (Inner margins of all leaves to 122 with small worm-hole.) Mottled sheep gilt. -- J.W. von GOETHE (1749-1832). Werther traduction... par C.Aubry. Paris: Didot jeune, 1797 (vol.I mis-dated MDCCLXCVII). 2 volumes in one, 18° in 6s (150 x 97mm). Half-titles, 6pp. catalogue at end of vol.II. 4 engraved plates by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux after René-Théodore Berthon. Blue straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins, pink watered-silk liners, g.e. Provenance: Laurence Currie (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS. Cohen-de Ricci 442. -- J.P.Claris de FLORIAN (1755-1794). Galatée. Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1783. 18° in 6s (125 x 73mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece, 2pp. dedication, portrait of Cervantes and 4 plates by J.B.Guyard after J.Flouest. (Plates lightly spotted). Light brown calf gilt, g.e., by Bozerian. FIRST EDITION THUS. Cohen-de Ricci 399. -- And two others (L.P.M.F.Baour LORMIAN. L'Aminte. Paris: [n.d.]. 12°; another edition of GOETHE'S Werther). (5)

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