HOMÈRE. - Lot 1088

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HOMÈRE. - Lot 1088
HOMÈRE. Complete works. New translation by Mr. Gin. With geographical, historical and literal notes... by M. Mentelle. Paris, Servière, 1784. 8 volumes in-12 (166 x 93 mm) of IV, XXIII, 283 pp., 1 f.n.ch., 97 pp. for volume I; 2 ff.n.ch., 266 pp., 2 ff.n.ch., 55 pp. for volume II; 2 ff.n.ch..., 317 pp., 1 f.n.ch., 79 pp. for volume III; 2 f.n.ch., 314 pp., 1 f.n.ch., 82 pp. for volume IV; XXXII, 431 pp. for volume V; 2 f.n.ch., 429 pp. for volume VII; 2 ff.n.ch., 300 pp., 2 ff.n.ch. for volume VII; 2 ff.n.ch., 170 pp., 2 ff.n.ch., 31 pp.., 2 ff.n.ch. for volume VIII; olive morocco, triple gilt fillet framing, central coat of arms of Louis de France dauphin (OHR, 2530, iron 1), ornate smooth spine, roulette on the cuts, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Beautiful edition of the complete works including the Iliad and the Odyssey (volumes I to VII). The last volume contains the Batrachomyomachy, the Hymns, and other pieces attributed to Homer. Beautiful royal provenance with the arms of Louis Joseph Xavier François de France (1781-1789), Dauphin de France, eldest son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, died of tuberculosis at the age of seven and a half in Meudon. Small hole on pages 209 /210 of the first volume (paper defect) not affecting the reading; binding a little out of date. Brunet, II, 621.
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