Ovide - Les Métamorphoses - 1677

Ovid's Metamorphoses

in Latin and French, divided into XV. Books.
With new Historical, Moral & Political Explanations on all the Fables, each according to its subject; from the Translation by Mr. Pierre Du-Ryer, Parisian, of the French Academy.
edition new enriched with very beautiful engravings

574 pp, large folio (43 x 29 cm), old Moroccan binding
Brussels, François Foppens, 1677

Luxurious edition giving on two columns the Latin text and the French translation by Pierre du-Ryer, as well as The Judgment of Paris translated by Nicolas Renouard and twenty epistles by Ovid.
First printing of the illustration, including a title vignette and 124 figures in the text engraved by Peter Paulet, Martin Bouché, Frederick Bouttats, Peter Clouwet, after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Hendrick Abbé and others.

scuffs and small tears to the sturdy binding, title page cut a little short at the top, interior clean, fine copy of this superb work

magnificent baroque illustration

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