Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide :. en latin /. traduites en françois, avec des remarques, et des explications historiques, par Mr. l'abbé Banier .. ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille douce, gravées par B. Picart, & autres habiles maîtres.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3045194
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v ([14], 524, [4] p) :. ill., port ;. fol. Accession no. 3683. 2v. in one. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Benedictine abbey of St. Alkyn, Clermont-Ferrand 1751 (inscription on titlepage); book label inside upper cover of J.-P. Platzmann. 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.63. Binding: eighteenth-century French panelled red morocco, square ornament at corners, and small thistle at outer corners. Spine gilt and lettered directly, green and yellow headbands, gilt edges, wave-marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD) abbé Antoine Banier (1673 - 1741) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733) R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith