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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. Della Natura delle Cose libri sei. Translated from Latin into Italian by Alessandro Marchetti. Amsterdam [but Paris]: François Gerbault, 1754. 2 volumes, 8° (220 x 138mm). On papier d'Hollande. Engraved frontispiece and title to each volume after Eisen, 6 engraved plates by Lemire, Aliamet and others after C. N. Cochin (5) and Le Lorrain (1), 2 full-page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. (occasional light spotting.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, covers with dentelle decoration made up from various small tools, spines in six compartments with floral tools, brown morocco lettering-pieces onlaid in two, g.e. (small neat repairs to extremities, spines discoloured to brown). Cohen-de Ricci 665-6; Ray French 9, C. Michel. Charles-Niclas Cochen et le Livre Illustré au XVIIIe siècle. Geneva: 1987, 97.
Ludovico ARIOSTO. Roland Furieux, Poëme héroïque. Translated by M. d'Ussieux. Paris: Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes, 8° (214 x 135mm). Engraved portrait of Ariosto and 92 engraved plates avant la lettre, 46 by Dalunay, Lingée and Ponce after C. N. Cochin, and 46 from the Baskerville series by Martini, Bartolozzi and others after Cipriani, Eisen, Moreau and others. (Plate for Chant XV, and leaf G4 of vol. II, each with small tear to blank outer margin; occasional light staining or soiling, heavier on G2 of vol. I.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, lettering-pieces in two, g.e. (extremities lightly rubbed). Cohen-de Ricci 98; cf. Ray French 10 (4° edition only). C. Michel, op cit 155. -- And five others illustrated by Cochin ([Dionis au SEJOUR.] Origine des Graces. Paris: 1777; M. LE MIERRE. La Peinture. Paris: 1769; T. LUCRETIUS CARO. Della Natura. Amsterdam: 1754; Torquato TASSO. Aminta, favola boscareccia. Paris: 1745). (11)
Ludovico ARIOSTO. Roland Furieux, Poëme héroïque. Translated by M. d'Ussieux. Paris: Brunet, 1775-1783. 4 volumes, 8° (214 x 135mm). Engraved portrait of Ariosto and 92 engraved plates avant la lettre, 46 by Dalunay, Lingée and Ponce after C. N. Cochin, and 46 from the Baskerville series by Martini, Bartolozzi and others after Cipriani, Eisen, Moreau and others. (Plate for Chant XV, and leaf G4 of vol. II, each with small tear to blank outer margin; occasional light staining or soiling, heavier on G2 of vol. I.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, lettering-pieces in two, g.e. (extremities lightly rubbed). Cohen-de Ricci 98; cf. Ray French 10 (4° edition only). C. Michel, op cit 155. -- And five others illustrated by Cochin ([Dionis au SEJOUR.] Origine des Graces. Paris: 1777; M. LE MIERRE. La Peinture. Paris: 1769; T. LUCRETIUS CARO. Della Natura. Amsterdam: 1754; Torquato TASSO. Aminta, favola boscareccia. Paris: 1745). (11)