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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Les Metamorphoses. Paris: [Prault for] Hochereau (vol.II: Panckoucke), 1767-1771. 4° (248 x 184mm.). 4 vols. Parallel text in French and Latin, titles in red and black. Engraved title, 3pp. dedication, title vignettes, 30 headpieces, one full-page cul-de-lampe and 139 plates after Choffard, Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot and others by Choffard, Lemire, Basan and others (clean tear to N<->2 vol.II, inner blank margins of b<->1 to A<->1 in vol.I holed, some light browning). Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine in six compartments, two with green morocco lettering pieces, g.e. (spine and extremities rubbed, head of spines of vols.I, III-IV chipped). Cohen/de Ricci 769: 'Superbe ouvrage... C'est un des plus galamment illustrés de tout le siècle.' - PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (62-113). Epistolarum libri decem. Leipsig: E.B.Shwickert, 1800-1802. 8° (216 x 122mm.). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, light blue watered silk endpapers, vol.I with additional vellum blanks, g.e. Provenance: Julius Didot (inscription dated 1810 on front vellum blank). - APULEIUS, Lucius and others. L.Apuleii de Asino aureo libelli.XI. Floridorum libri quatuor [and other works]. Edited by M.Tuccius. Florence: P.de Giunta, February 1512. 8° (160 x 100mm.). Woodcut printer's device on recto of final leaf (title somewhat browned). Contemporary sheep, tooled and blocked in blind, gilt and gauffered edges (neatly rebacked and cornered). Provenance: René Choppin (bookplate); Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmin Didot (booklabel). - And four others, including the first Aldine edition of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius (8°, Venice: January 1502), a finely bound copy of Sallust's Opera (8°, London: T.& T.Payne, 1789) and Abrégé de l'histoire Grecque et Romaine. by Velleius Paterculus (8°, Avignon: J.J.Niel, 1768.) (10)