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an old book with a brown cover sitting on top of a white surfacea pair of old books sitting on top of each othera book with a picture of a man in a hat on itan old book with a picture of a woman and a manan open book with a picture of a man on ita black and white drawing of a woman in a beda black and white drawing of a man on a horsea drawing of a group of people on a boat in the waterseveral old books are stacked on top of each other on a white surface
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243 - MARMONTEL, Jean-François; LUCAIN (Marcus Annæus Lucanus, kno…
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MARMONTEL, Jean-François; LUCAIN (Marcus Annæus Lucanus, known as). *The Pharsalia*. First edition of Marmontel’s translation of one of the finest Latin epics. Paris, Merlin, 1766. 2 volumes in-8 (188 x 120 mm), full marbled brown calfskin, smooth spine decorated with horizontal gilt fillets, title and volume number labels in brown leather, small gilt ironwork with tassels, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilded fillet at the edges, blue pebbled edges. LXXIX, 304 and 415 pages; 1 frontispiece and 10 engravings. Caps damaged, edges rubbed, corners worn, foxing. First edition of Marmontel’s translation of *Pharsale*, illustrated with 10 engravings after Hubert-François Gravelot. Heraldic bookplate of the Count of Noir de Cambon. Included: *Les Caractères* by La Bruyère (Vol. 1: Paris, David, 1759; Vol. 2: Paris, Laurent Prault, 1782), Selected Fables by La Fontaine (Vols. 4 and 6: Paris, Durand, Deslauriers, 1773), Works of Molière (Vols. 1–5 and 7–8: Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730), Suite des Voyages de Tavernier (Vol. 2: J.-B. Machuel, Paris, 1713), Voyage de des Marchais (Vol. 3: Paris, Saugrain, 1730), *Histoire générale des voyages* (Vol. 36). A fine, fairly fresh and complete set of all his engravings.
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