Binding by Derôme THEOCRITE Idylls. Translated... - Lot 797 - Briscadieu

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Binding by Derôme THEOCRITE Idylls. Translated... - Lot 797 - Briscadieu
Binding by Derôme THEOCRITE Idylls. Translated into French by J.B. Gail. Paris, the author; Baudelot & Eberhart, year IV (1796). (Followed by) MUSÉE LE GRAMMAIRIEN: Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro, poem by Musée le Grammairien, translated into French by J.B. Gail. Paris, Gail, year IV (1796). 2 volumes in-4 : 2f., XXVIII, 197pp, (1) / 2f., 209pp, (3) - VIII, 68pp ; illustrated with 10 plates out of text engraved by Le Barbier ainé, Boichot, Moitte, Fragonard Fils, engraved by Edme Bovinet, Louis Simon Lempereur... Including 4 in 3 states (etchings, before the letter and in colours). Frontispiece engraving for the loves of Léandre. Trilingual edition (Greek, Latin, French). Some scattered spotting in places, edition with large margins. Contemporary glazed fawn calf by DERÔME, smooth spine decorated, small gilt garland framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt border inside, gilt edges. A fine copy. Engravings : - Volume I : Thyrsis (3 states) - The Thalysians (3 states) - The bucolic singers (3 states) - Hylas (3 states) - Volume II : The Graces or Hieron (one state) - Hercules in the cradle (one state) - Hercules defeating the lion of Nemaeus (one state) - The Bacchae (one state) - The cattail (one state)
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