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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Les métamorphoses ... traduits en françois, avec des remarques ... par ... l'Abbé Banier, Amsterdam: R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1732.
2° (465 x 303mm.), half title in volume I, engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, vignette at head of dedication leaf and 130 engravings, 124 in the text and the other 6 contained on 3 plates, many after Bernard Picart (some browning, spotting, offsetting and show-through throughout, vol. II lacks front free endpaper), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines (very rubbed, corners worn, short splits in hinges). Provenance: Francis Robert Davies (bookplate); Marcel Bertrand (bookplate).
Cohen-De-Ricci 768: "Magnifique ouvrage".
2° (465 x 303mm.), half title in volume I, engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, vignette at head of dedication leaf and 130 engravings, 124 in the text and the other 6 contained on 3 plates, many after Bernard Picart (some browning, spotting, offsetting and show-through throughout, vol. II lacks front free endpaper), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines (very rubbed, corners worn, short splits in hinges). Provenance: Francis Robert Davies (bookplate); Marcel Bertrand (bookplate).
Cohen-De-Ricci 768: "Magnifique ouvrage".
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