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Longus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé ... translatées en François par Jacques Amyot.

With engr. frontispiece after Coypel, and 29 partly folded copperplates after Philippe d’Orléans. XII, 207 pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. green tinted half vellum with ms. title on spine. – Bouillon, Société Typographique, 1776.

With two prefaces, one by the editor, one by the translator. The present plates drawn by Philippe d’Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV, were first published in 1718. – Cf. Brunet III, 1157f. (eds. of 1718 and 1745). – Good copy. – Best.-Nr. 7315