Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Les Métamorphoses . . . Édition Nouvelle. Latin text with French translation by Pierre du Ryer. Engraved title vignette and 124 text illustrations by Pierre-Paul Bouché and Martin Bouché. [6], 574 [i. e., 576] pages. Folio, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip; repair in blank outer margin of title (with adhesive discoloration) and 3E1, repaired clean tear across 3R4, vertical crease in last leaf. Brussels: François Foppens, 1677

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Later edition of a translation originally published in Paris in 1655. Brunet IV, 285; Funck, page 375; this edition not in Tchemerzine (1977).