HOMERE / de LA MOTTE - L'Iliade. Poème. Avec un discours sur Homère. Par Monsieur de la Motte de l'Académie française. - 1714
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HOMERE / de LA MOTTE presents L'Iliade. Poème. Avec un discours sur Homère, by Monsieur de la Motte de l’Académie française (1714, Paris, chez Grégoire Dupuis) in one illustrated leather-bound volume of 402 pages in excellent condition, featuring a frontispiece and 12 engravings, with the first edition of La Motte’s translation and the included Discours de Houdart de La Motte.
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HOMERE / Antoine HOUDART de LA MOTTE.
The Iliad. Poem. With a discourse on Homer. By Monsieur de la Motte of the French Academy.
1714, at Grégoire Dupuis, Paris.
1 vol. in-8 bound, of CLXXX-207-15 pages. Magnificent 19th-century glazed tawny full-leather binding, spine with five raised bands adorned with compartments, fillets, rosettes, borders, and the title, stamped in fine gold, triple gold fillet framing the boards, all edges gilt, gilded roulettes on the fore-edges.
Work illustrated by a frontispiece and 12 steel engravings hors texte by Roettiers and Nattier, engraved by Edelinck and Chauffournier.
First edition of La Motte's translation, bringing a new perspective to this text, which had been set aside by the perceived mediocre quality of earlier translations.
Original edition of the Discours de Houdart de La Motte on the Iliad and of his ode 'La Critique', at the end of the volume.
Very fine copy, in a sumptuous pastiche binding.
HOMERE / Antoine HOUDART de LA MOTTE.
The Iliad. Poem. With a discourse on Homer. By Monsieur de la Motte of the French Academy.
1714, at Grégoire Dupuis, Paris.
1 vol. in-8 bound, of CLXXX-207-15 pages. Magnificent 19th-century glazed tawny full-leather binding, spine with five raised bands adorned with compartments, fillets, rosettes, borders, and the title, stamped in fine gold, triple gold fillet framing the boards, all edges gilt, gilded roulettes on the fore-edges.
Work illustrated by a frontispiece and 12 steel engravings hors texte by Roettiers and Nattier, engraved by Edelinck and Chauffournier.
First edition of La Motte's translation, bringing a new perspective to this text, which had been set aside by the perceived mediocre quality of earlier translations.
Original edition of the Discours de Houdart de La Motte on the Iliad and of his ode 'La Critique', at the end of the volume.
Very fine copy, in a sumptuous pastiche binding.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Fine Bindings, Illustrated, Literature, Poetry
Book title
L'Iliade. Poème. Avec un discours sur Homère. Par Monsieur de la Motte de l'Académie française.
Author/ Illustrator
HOMERE / de LA MOTTE
Condition
Fine
Publication year oldest item
1714
Edition
1st Edition Thus, Illustrated Edition
Language
French
Original language
No
Publisher
chez Grégoire Dupuis
Binding/ Material
Leather
Number of pages
402
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