77/2289 [Classical antiquity and neolatinism]. Ovidius Naso, P. Gedaantewisselingen en derzelver verklaring door den Abt [A.] Banier. Amst., D.J. Changuion and G. Warnars, 1779, 2 vols., (14),278; (4),308,(10)p., 2 ident. engr. title vignettes, 140 engr. plates by LE MIRE, LONGUEIL a.o. after EISEN, GRAVELOT, MOREAU a.o., 1 allegorical plate ("Fin des estampes des Metamorphoses") bound at the beginning of vol.1, contemp. unif. gilt hmor. w. black mor. letterpiece, 4to.

- Paper over boards chafed. Otherwise a fine and very clean copy.

= All plates w. French text/ captions. Reprint of the ed. Amst., 1732; Dutch transl. I. Verburg. Geerebaert CXXII, 39. For the orig. French ed. Paris, 1767-1771, with the same ills. see Cohen/ De Ricci 769-772 ("Superbe ouvrage (...). C'est un des plus galamment illustrés de tout le siècle"), Sander 1472, Fürstenberg p.79 ("Hauptwerk französischer Illustrationskunst") and Levine p.395 ("One of the most elegantly illustrated books of the last century"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.