OVIDE

Illustrated edition with 3 repeated title vignettes, 3 repeated frontispieces and 17 unsigned figures by Léonard Gautier. Title pages in red and black. Translation by Pierre Du Ryer.
Dutch contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine with title and volume numbering in black ink at head. Central blind-stamped roundel on covers with double frame and fleurons in corners. Some soiling. Trace of old label on title of volume II. Fresh throughout, with some foxing in margins. One brown stain on upper cover of volume II.
Handsome copy in contemporary Dutch vellum.

Edition illustrated with original drypoints and two-tone initial letters by Paul-Emile Bécat, one of 770 numbered copies on Arches paper.
Spine of chemise and slipcase boards marginally and slightly faded.
Handsome copy complete with its chemise and slipcase covered in red felt..

New edition. Plantin Press (Ex officina plantiniana). Title page within an engraved portico. Printer's device on title page. Printed in italics. Specific title page for Tristium.
Contemporary rigid vellum binding with flaps. Smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, with pen-and-ink title in black, faded and illegible. Double blind fillet frame on boards with the initials in black M B F Z and a date: 1598. Small brown stains. Handsome copy.
Latin editions of the Fasti, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, Ibis and the elegy to Livia. The edition of the Fasti and notes are by Vic. Giselino, that of the Tristia by Naugeri, that of the Epistulae ex Ponto by George Fabricius, the Ibis by...

Edition of the French translation by Desaintange (Ange-François Fariau de Saint-Ange (1747-1810)), with the French version alongside the Latin. The very famous illustration comprises a portrait of Desaintange, a frontispiece, and 139 figures by Eisen, Moreau Le Jeune, Gravelot, Monnet, Boucher and engraved by Massard, Simmonet, Née, Leveau, Ponce, Binet, De Longueil... Most by Eisen and Moreau Le Jeune. Complete with the leaf showing placement of engravings after the title of volume I.
Contemporary binding in full blonde sheep marbled in green and brown. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments in grotesque style (stars and small tools), with roulettes at head and foot (wide...