"Unique Translator's Manuscript In 2vol In4" Translation N.elle In French Verse Of Horace" 17th"
Rare document and important manuscript of the "New Translation in French Verse of the Satires & Epistles of Horace; with some critical Notes from the second half of the 17th century in two beautiful volumes In4, contemporary bindings in tinted calf, spines with raised bands decorated with gilded iron in the boxes, titles and volume numbers in garnet morocco, marbled guards ex-libris, red edges. Ex-libris Dt. of St. Maurice in suprema Rattionum Curia présidis. This RARE and magnificent text of clarification of the library of Despréaux initialed on each page of the "D", and with the bands of covering the repentances, very legible text of 287 & more than 280 handwritten pages with its corrections, make this Work a rare and unique national treasure of the Scholar Boileau, for a great classic text of the Great Horace, a model for the period of the Reign of Louis XIV, for one of the greatest Poets of his time "Boileau Despréaux"