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APULEIUS. Les Metamorphoses; ou, L'Asne d'Or. . . Novvellement reveves, corrigées, & mises en meilleur ordre qu'aux precedentes Impressions. [16], 382; 270, [41] pages, including engraved additional title and 16 full-page illustrations. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 18th-century olive morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments, lettering in one with floral tooling in the rest; contents toned, light offsetting from illustrations, scattered minor stains. Paris: Nicolas & Jean De La Coste, 1648
French translation by Jean de Montlyard originally published in 1602. With the bookplates of Armand-Bernard Cigogne, Baron Jean de Roche Lacarelle, Valentin Blacque, Henry W. Poor, Lucius Wilmerding, and Douglas Maxwell Moffat.
