TIBULLE / MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de) / SEC - Lot 123

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TIBULLE / MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de) / SEC - Lot 123
TIBULLE / MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de) / SECOND, Jean. Elegies of Tibulle, followed by the Kisses of Jean Second / Contes et Nouvelles. Paris, year VI - 1798. 3 vol. in-8. Full contemporary marbled calf, gilt roulette in frame, spine with ornamented faux-nerves, title-piece in red morocco and tome in green morocco. Illustrated with 15 intaglio engravings including two portrait-frontispieces after compositions by Antoine Borel; 13 hors-texte after compositions by Borel (12) and Clément-Pierre Marillier (1). New edition of the illustrations that appeared in the original edition in 1795. Volumes 1 and 2: translation by Mirabeau of the texts of Tibulle and Jean Second; texts in Latin with the French translation opposite. Volume 3 includes mainly free translations and adaptations of texts by Ferrante Pallavicino, Alessandro Tassoni, Théophile de Viau, Jacques Yver, Francisco Columna (Le Songe de Poliphile), Le Tasse... Copy enriched with an engraved captioned hors-texte illustrating Tibullus' elegies; unsigned composition. Manuscript bookplate: Roumagnac Marchand. Volume 3: false-title leaf bound after the title page. Fine copies.
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