Ovidius Naso. Van der Passe (Crispin) and other illustrators -- XV Metamorphoseon Librorum figurae elegantissime a Crispiano Passeo lamnis aeneis incisae, [n.p.], apud Crip. Passaeum et Joannem Jansonium typographium, [1607], 4to, engraved title and 130 plates only by Crispin van der Passe (of 134), with engraved verse followed by printed text in Latin and German in parallel columns (title and several plates cut down and mounted, all affected by damp, some plates also wormed), later half calf (upper cover detached) [Franken 254] -- Verwandlungen in Kupfern Vorgestellt und mit noetigen Erlaeuterungen versehen, Vienna, Ignaz Alberti, 1791, 3 vols., 8vo, engraved frontispieces and 139 plates, the majority by Joseph Stöber and H. Benedicti (some marginal soiling), contemporary boards in baroque gold paper (recased) [Schweiger II, 669; Lanck/Ochler III, 21ff; Rümann 836 f.n.]; and 9 other illustrated vols., German text, 1690-1916. (13)

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Ovidius Naso. Van der Passe (Crispin) and other illustrators -- XV Metamorphoseon Librorum figurae elegantissime a Crispiano Passeo lamnis aeneis incisae, [n.p.], apud Crip. Passaeum et Joannem Jansonium typographium, [1607], 4to, engraved title and 130 plates only by Crispin van der Passe (of 134), with engraved verse followed by printed text in Latin and German in parallel columns (title and several plates cut down and mounted, all affected by damp, some plates also wormed), later half calf (upper cover detached) [Franken 254] -- Verwandlungen in Kupfern Vorgestellt und mit noetigen Erlaeuterungen versehen, Vienna, Ignaz Alberti, 1791, 3 vols., 8vo, engraved frontispieces and 139 plates, the majority by Joseph Stöber and H. Benedicti (some marginal soiling), contemporary boards in baroque gold paper (recased) [Schweiger II, 669; Lanck/Ochler III, 21ff; Rümann 836 f.n.]; and 9 other illustrated vols., German text, 1690-1916. (13)

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The second work is the first edition of one of the principal works of the Vienna school of engraving in imitation of the French with German translation by J.G.K. Schlueter.

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