Les quatre poëtiques: d'Aristote, d'Horace, de Vida, de Despréaux, avec les traductions & des remarques. Par M. l'abbé Batteux, Professeur Royal, de l'Académie Françoise, & de celle des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres
Paris: chez Saillant & Nyon, Libraires, rue Saint-Jean-Beauvais: Desaint Libraire, rue du Foin, 1771. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [2], iv, [2], 358, [2], 101, [1]; [4], 167, [1], 118, [2]; vignette title pages, engraved frontispiece in volume I signed: "signed: "C.N. Cochin filius del 1770, Aug. de St. Aubin sculp. 1771," woodcut ornaments; 20th-century full calf, probably by Alfred Smith & Co., Philadelphia, spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct in 2, a.e.g.; spine slightly sunned and upper cover of the second volume shows a shadow of a bookend; all else very good, clean, and sound. Memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. Each volume is in two parts, each with separate pagination and signatures. Parts 2 and 4 have special half titles. Text variously in Greek, Latin, and French. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. Item #70538
Price: $325.00
