Lot n° 147
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
Copy on Chine - Maroquin signed Champs
LONGUS
Les... - Lot 147 - Briscadieu
Copy on Chine - Maroquin signed Champs
LONGUS
Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloé. Translation by Messire J. Amyot, revised, corrected and completed by Paul-Louis Courier. Notice par Anatole France. Paris, Lemerre, 1878.
In-8. Limited edition of 100 copies, one of 50 on Chine. 6 engravings (including frontispiece), text framed in red.
Brown morocco signed CHAMPS, ornate ribbed spine, triple gilt fillet on covers, double gilt fillet on edges, inner gilt garland, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé "is unquestionably one of the most charming works left to us by Antiquity".
In fine, pieces relating to the Fragment de Longus found by M. Courier.
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