Ovidius Naso, Publius
£600
Auction: 16 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Ovid's metamorphoses in Latin and English... with historical explications... written in French in the Abbot Banier... translated into English. Amsterdam: Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. 2 volumes, folio (458 x 293mm.), parallel Latin and English text, one half-title, title-pages printed in red and black with an engraved vignette, engraved head-piece, 124 engravings in the text and an additional 6 printed on 3 sheets, by Bouche, Folkema, Schenk, Wandelaar and others after Picart, Lebrun, Punt, de Wit and others, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, modern burgundy morocco gilt, [Cohen-de Ricci 768], slight worming in a few lower margins of volume 2, occasional light spotting