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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Excellente figueren ghesneden uuyten uppersten Poëte Ovidius uuyt vyfthien boucken der verandinghen met huerlier bedietsele. Duer Guilliaume Borluit burgher der stede van Ghende. Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1557.
Small 8° (144 x 100mm.). Italic letter, 178 woodcut illustrations, most within various woodcut borders, final leaf with typographical ornament. (First 2 leaves with small hole affecting a few letters, slightly browned, some leaves slightly soiled, margins trimmed occasionally touching borders.) 18th-century mottled sheep, maroon lettering-piece (extremities rubbed), modern slipcase. Provenance: William and Marianne Salloch (bookplate).
First edition of Borluyt's Flemish translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with woodcuts after Bernard Salomon, some of which had appearred in the Tournes-Marot edition of 1549. Mortimer/Harvard French 404.
Small 8° (144 x 100mm.). Italic letter, 178 woodcut illustrations, most within various woodcut borders, final leaf with typographical ornament. (First 2 leaves with small hole affecting a few letters, slightly browned, some leaves slightly soiled, margins trimmed occasionally touching borders.) 18th-century mottled sheep, maroon lettering-piece (extremities rubbed), modern slipcase. Provenance: William and Marianne Salloch (bookplate).
First edition of Borluyt's Flemish translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with woodcuts after Bernard Salomon, some of which had appearred in the Tournes-Marot edition of 1549. Mortimer/Harvard French 404.