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LES METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE, EN LATIN ET FRANCOIS, DIVISEES EN XV LIVRES. AVEC DE NOUVELLES EXPLICATIONS HISTORIQUES, MORALES & POLITIQUES SU TOUTES LES FABLES, CHACUNE SELON SON SUJET; DE LA TRADUCTION DE M. PIERRE DU-RYER PARISIEN, DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAIS. EDITION NOUVELLE ENRICHE DE TRES BELLES FIGURES
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Fine/none
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About This Item
Amsterdam., P. & J. Blaeu, Janssons of Waesberge, Boom, and Goethals., 1702. Large Folio. 44.8 x 27.9 cm. Pp. [xii], 1-574pp.[Les Métamorphoses (pp. 1-502), Le Jugement de Pâris (pp. 503-516), Tables des fables (pp. 517-520), Epîtres d Ovide (pp. 521-574). With engraved title-page and 122 beautiful engraved illustrations drawn and engraved mainly by Martin Bouché ,Peter, Paul Bouché and by et Peter Clouwet d après Abraham van Diepenbeeck et Hendrick Abbé notamment, M. Dolin, and others. Inspired y Crispin de Passe. Parallel text with the original Latin version and the French translation in prose, and extensive notes on the fables by the member to the Academie Francaise, Pierre Du-Ryer, Graesse, J.G.T. Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique; Catalogue General des Livres Imprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale, Vol. 128, p. 643.
Bound in period style in full brown calf. Spine with raised bands and dark red morocco label lettered in gold. Covers in two tones, with multi-rule frames and intricate corner tools blind stamped. Exceptional condition with magnificent impressions of the multitude of the engravings.
This is Ovid's most influential work on the beginnings of Man to the time of Caesar. Ovidian influence on the English literary scene dates from Chaucer. Later on, Marlow, Spencer, Shakespeare and others were all indebted to him-either directly or through A. Golding's translation of The Metamorphoses, published between 1565 and 1567.
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- LES METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE, EN LATIN ET FRANCOIS, DIVISEES EN XV LIVRES. AVEC DE NOUVELLES EXPLICATIONS HISTORIQUES, MORALES & POLITIQUES SU TOUTES LES FABLES, CHACUNE SELON SON SUJET; DE LA TRADUCTION DE M. PIERRE DU-RYER PARISIEN, DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAIS. EDITION NOUVELLE ENRICHE DE TRES BELLES FIGURES
- Author
- OVID
- Illustrator
- Martin and Paul Bouché by Diebenbeke, M. Dolin, and others.
- Format/Binding
- Leather full brown calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- P. & J. Blaeu, Jawnsons of Walsberge, Boom, and Goethals
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1702
- Pages
- 574pp.
- Size
- Folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated books
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L'Estampe Originale
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About L'Estampe Originale
L'estampe Originale, founded in 1978 by Sandra Sofris Dolmatch, MFA, is a private art and antiquarian book dealer devoted to the research and selling of fine original prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture- old master, nineteenth and twentieth century. It is a small company based on the traditional European model, that is to say with a medium sized and varied inventory embracing both major artists and minor, expensive and inexpensive. The list of writers, publishers and artists represented in our inventory is numerous, the techniques include a variety of drawings, etchings, engravings, aquatints, mezzotints, dry points, lithography, woodcuts, wood engravings, screen prints and a selection of mixed media. Although we are by nature generalists in the field, we have particular strengths in 19th and 20th century prints, paintings, and rare books. Sandra has been a member of ABAA, CINOA and ILAB since 1980. She numbers among her clients, private collectors, art dealers, libraries, foundations, as well as museums and rare book rooms in Europe, Asia, and Australia. You will find many of her antiquarian books, prints, and drawings as L'estampe Originale on the following websites:www.abaa.orgwww.biblio.comwww.abebooks.comwww.ilab.comor my own website at www. lestampeoriginale.com
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