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CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius
Traduction en prose de Catulle, Tibulle, et Gallus. Par l'auteur des Soirées Helvétiennes, & des Tableaux. Tome premier. (... second.)
A Amsterdam (Place), et se trouve a Paris, chez Delalain, libraire,, 1771.
2 vols ; 16.5 cm. (12º)
I: [4], xxiv, 427, [3] p.
II: [2], 469, [7] p.

Les Soirées Helvétiennes, Alsaciennes et Fran-comtoises (Amsterdam, 1771) are generally attributed to A. F. J. Masson, Marquis de Pezay; but the translations are also attributed to J.B.F.C. David. Issued in the same year in an octavo format having frontispiece engravings by de Longueil after C.D.J. Eisen. Includes a preliminary discourse, notes, etc. Latin text facing French translation. The poems of Catullus include the Pervigilium Veneris, and are not arranged in the traditional order. The poems attributed here to C. Cornelius Gallus, formerly published by Aldo Manuzio the Younger, are followed by the elegies on old age of Maximianus Etruscus falsely attributed to Gallus by Pomponius Gauricus in his Life of Gallus; these are here in Latin only. The notes on Tibullus contain a translation of Elegy XIII from the fourth book by Louis Racine.

Copy Notes Volume I front free-endpaper inscribed in pencil with the price -5s-.

Binding C18th sponge-mottled sheep, blind-ruled borders, gilt-tooled spines with thistle motif, red spine-labels, marbled edges and endpapers.

Reference Number 3938

Additional Names Tibullus Gallus, Gaius Cornelius (69?--26 B.C); David, Jean Baptiste François Claude; Masson, Alexandre Frédéric Jacques, Marquis de Pezay; Maximianus, Etruscus (6th cent.); Pezay, Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson, marquis de (1741--1777); Racine, Louis (1692--1763); Manuzio, Aldo (1547--1597); Pervigilium veneris; Gallus, Cneus Cornelius


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