Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses . . . en Rondeaux. Engraved royal arms on title; 226 text illustrations by Sébastien Le Clerc and François Chauveau. [14], 463, [8] pages, including engraved additional title by Le Clerc after Charles Le Brun. 4to, 284x209 mm, contemporary calf, recased with spine ends restored, lettering piece off, endpapers renewed; dampstaining in blank lower margins throughout with paper corrosion along bottom edges and traces of mold, wormtrail through blank lower margin of gatherings I through Q with partial crude repairs, blank lower outer corner of 2V3 restored, some toning toward end, gathering 3K browned. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1676

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first edition of this verse translation by Isaac de Benserade, concluding with acrostichs linking the names of Madame de Ludre and her admirer Louis XIV. Tchemerzine (1977) I, 614.