TIBULLE/MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de)/SECOND, - Lot 242

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TIBULLE/MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de)/SECOND, - Lot 242
TIBULLE/MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de)/SECOND, Jean. Élégies de Tibulle, suivies des Baisers de Jean Second/Contes et Nouvelles. Paris, year VI - 1798. 3 vol. in-8. Full contemporary marbled calf, gilt roulette in frame, spine with false-nerve ornamented, red morocco title-piece and green morocco tomography. The work is 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 Tibullus 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 a captioned hors-texte engraved in intaglio illustrating the elegies of Tibullus; unsigned composition. Handwritten bookplate: Roumagnac Marchand. Volume 3: false title leaf bound after the title page. Fine copies. ATTACHED: BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin Caron de. La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro. Paris, Ruault, 1786. 1 vol. in-12. Brown half calf of the first half of the 19th century, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold filets, gilt author and title. A handwritten note pasted on a flyleaf of this copy indicates: "Edition published under the date of the original, similar for its contents, with the same privileges and notices of the publisher, the name of Ph. D. Pierres for printer, but whose text is tightened, the title finial different - Cordier, Bibliogr. de Beaumarchais, does not quote this edition: 2 ff. n. ch., XLII and 178 pages." Last quire bound in disorder.
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