[Rarebooks] FS: Ovid's METAMORPHOSES, 1732, Illustrated with 124 copper engravings by Picart, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

*De Gedaant-Wisselingen Van P. Ovidius Naso, in Het Latyn en 
Nederduitsch, Nieulyx vertaald, en te zamen in het Licht gegeven, Door 
Isaak Verburg, Rector der Latynsche Scholen te Amsterdam; nevens 
Omstandige Aantekeningen Tot Opheldering Der verdichtselen, Door 
Antonius Banier, Lidt van de Academie der Opschriften en beschaafde 
Wetenschappen te Parys. Met een groot getal keurlyke prentverbeeldingen, 
door B. Picart en andere voorname Meesters gesneeden, vercierd. *

Amsterdam: Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.  First Verburg Edition of Ovid's 
Metamorphoses.  Two large folio (12" x 17-1/2") volumes bound in 
contemporary vellum.  A splendid and highly desirable edition of Ovid 
with dark impressions of these masterfully engraved plates. --Brunet IV 
285; Lowndes 1744.  Title pages printed in red & black with engraved 
vignettes.  Illustrated with 4 engraved plates and 124 text 
copper-engravings by Bernard Picart, Charles le Brun and several other 
artists.  Latin text with Dutch translation in facing columns by Isaak 
Verburg and notes by Antoine Banier.  Some typical aging to paper but a 
Near Fine set.     $3000

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