METAMORPHOSES D'OVID
Hardcover
1802 · Paris
by [Ovid] Dubois-Fontanelle
Paris: L. DuPrat, 1802. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee et augmentee de notes par l'auteur. On y a joint un Dictionnaire Mythologique, et des notes explicatives d'aprs Banier, Dupuis, Noel, etc.; par F. G. Desfontaines. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Paris: L. DuPrat, 1802. 4 vols. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee et augmentee de notes par l'auteur. On y a joint un Dictionnaire Mythologique, et des notes explicatives d'aprs Banier, Dupuis, Noel, etc.; par F. G. Desfontaines. 15 engravings in toto. xli, 346; 348; 318; 418 pp. Text in Parallel French and Latin texts. Hardcover. 8vo. Full contemporary calf. Simple gilt decoration to spine, titles gilt on maroon onlays, gilt fillet borders to boards. All edges gilt. Corners bumped, heads and heels of spines and board edges rubbed. Small (1 cm and smaller) splash stains to boards of all volumes. Vol. IV has a 2 cm scratch to head of front board. Tanning and moderate foxing to leaves nearest boards. Tissue guards intact. Plates lightly to moderately foxed with light to moderate offsetting to guards and bleed through to recto. Very good/No jacket issued. Joseph Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle (1737 - 1812) seems to be remembered principally as the editor of the "Naufrage et Aventures de M. Pierre Viaud," an account of M. Viaud's shipwreck on the coast of Florida. This translation of Ovid's "Metamorphosis" achieved contemporary popularity, however, going through at least eight different printings between 1766 and 1806 (Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply) (Insurance required to ship this item). (Inventory #: 19958)