Ovide, Nicolas Rénouard - XV Discours sur les
Author:Nicolas RenouardYear: EDITION: First edition Publisher Chez Claude Cramoisy (Boutique d'Angelier)Place: ParisLanguage: FrenchPAGES: pages (30 p -786 p + 14 p + 354 p + 12 p.)Size: 18 x 12 x 8 cmBinding: parchmentCondition: GoodThe 15th speech contains the explanation of the moral fables (book XV, includes 3 parts:) Métamorphoses, les Discours et le Jugement de Paris.It contains 17 prints full page of extreme beauty: the frontispiece, 1 engraved portrait of Ovid and 16 engravings. The preliminary pages contain: "To France" N. Renouard, an "Elegy by Ovid" the poet John de Lingendes, "stanzas of the Ovid's Metamorphoses" translated by Renouard". There is also "The judgment of Paris", "Bees, metamorphosis, translated from the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics" and “The remedies against love".Some foxing on the first pages, moreover, wonderful work, spectacular and extremely rare. Read More