Description
LUCAIN (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus).
La Pharsale de Lucain, traduite par H. Marmontel.
Merlin, Paris, 1766. 2 volumes in-8°, LXXIX, 304 & 415 pp., superb full calf binding, brick fore‑edges, rounded corners, a small missing lower headband, interior well preserved, name of a former owner on the title pages.
First printing of the 11 plates (illustrations) by Gravelot engraved on steel by Duclos (2), Ghendt (3), Le Mire (2), Née (1), Rousseau (1) and Simonet (2). First edition of this prose translation by Marmontel, preceded by a preface and accompanied by abbreviated arguments at the beginning of each book




















