[Rarebooks] fa: SATIRES DE JUVENAL 1770 - Jean Dusaulx - Fine Period Morocco Binding

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Jean Dusaulx, trans.: Satires de Juvenal traduites par M. Dusaulx, Ancien Commissaire de la Gendarmerie, de l'Academie Royale des sciences et Belles Lettres de Nancy. Paris: de l'imprimerie de M. Lambert, 1770. First edition thus; 8vo (19 cm), in full period/early crimson morocco with gilt-tooled borders to the boards, fleurettes to the spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [8], xl, 501, [3] pp.; with the half-title.

First edition of this translation by Jean Dusaulx (1728-1799), friend of Rousseau and d'Alembert, correspondent of Benjamin Franklin, a man of letters who in later life turned to politics, becoming a member of the Council of Ancients, the upper house of the Directory, during the French Revolution. Some slight darkening of the spine, small area of soiling to the rear cover, else the binding is Fine; intermittent toning to the leaves with some scattered light spotting, a few light (easily erasable) penciled tick marks in the margins. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of Ross Ambler Curran, early twentieth-century West Coast society figure and bibliophile. A handsome copy.