APULÉE - Lot 27

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APULÉE - Lot 27
APULÉE Les Métamorphoses ou l'Asne d'Or de L. Apulée philosophe platonique. A Paris, Chez Samuel Thiboust,1623. 2 parts in 1 volume in-8 (185 x 118 mm) of [19] ff. 522 pp. ; 352 pp. Red morocco, gilt fillet and roulette on the boards with gilt medallion in the center, spine gilt, gilt edges (period binding). First illustrated edition of the translation by Jean de Montlyard, who scrupulously respected the numerous boldnesses of the original text, cut out by the following translators. The edition ends with an important Commentary on the work, with separate pagination. Magnificent intaglio illustrations including a title-frontispiece and 16 full-page figures after Crispin de Passe and Isaac Briot. The beautiful iconography places the work in the first rank of the main illustrated books of the 17th century. A precious copy, very wide margins, entirely rubricated in bistre ink, in beautiful decorated contemporary morocco, from the Robert Beauvillain library with ex-libris. Slight spotting on a few leaves. Small scratches recolored in the binding Old handwritten bookplate in bistre ink, small stains and traces of wax on the binding.
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