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Ovid (43 BCE-18 CE) Les Metamorphoses en Latin et François, Divisées en XV. Livres.
Brussels: Chez François Foppens, 1677.
Oversized folio, second edition of Pierre Du-Ryer's (c. 1606-1658) translation, handsomely illustrated with 124 text engravings by a variety of artists, including Crispijn van de Passe the elder and his children Crispijn the younger and Magdalena, along with Martin & Paul Bouché, Rubens (page 83), and others; half-title present, title printed in red and black with large engraved vignette; lacking leaf Ff1 [page 225/226], occasional tears to text leaves, most marginal, one horizontal across the sheet on a text-only leaf; sturdily bound in modern half morocco with brown buckram boards, spine with prominent raised bands and title tooled in gilt; 18 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.
