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Oeuvres de Lucien, traduites du grec. Avec des Remarques historiques et critiques sur le texte de cet Auteur, et la …
moreOeuvres de Lucien, traduites du grec. Avec des Remarques historiques et critiques sur le texte de cet Auteur, et la collation de six Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque du Roi. D'apres une copie verifiee et revue sur six Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque du Roi. Tome premiere - sixieme.
Lucien (from Samosate)
Published by chez Jean-Francois Bastien, Paris, 1789
Les six tomes broches en carton et etiquetes, 36 livres. 1789. Tome 1 (446 p.), Tome 2 (568 p.), Tome 3 (602 p.), Tome 4 (582 p.), Tome 5 (466 p.), Tome 6 [Tome 1 ( i-cxxxv),Tome 2 ( i-cxxxvj), Tome 3 (i-cxv), Tome 4 (i-xl)]. Description: Full leather hardbound, six band spine cover gilt tooled floral/frame design, gilt title over red spine label, gilt edge framed leather boards, full marble leaf edge and end papers. Dimensions: 7 13/16" x 5 1/4" x 1 7/8" each volume. Condition: Very good; square spines hinges intact (leather breaking in general peripheral areas (primarily affects front hinges of 4 volumes; spine cords appear tight/strong), very sparse spotting of free end papers and title pages, bright and tight text pages.
Note: Works, translated from the Greek with historical and critical remarks on the text of this author and the collation of the six manuscripts of the library of the king, by Jacques Nicolas Belin de Ballu, at Jean-Francois Bastien, Paris, 1789:
Works , translated from the Greek with historical and critical remarks on the text of this author and the collation of the six manuscripts of the library of the king, by Jacques Nicolas Belin de Ballu, at Jean-François Bastien, Paris, 1789:
Tome 1: The Dream or the life of Lucien , To a man who told him you are a Prometheus , Nigrinus or the manners of a philosopher , The judgment of vowels , Timon or misanthrope , The Alcyon or metamorphosis , Prometheus or the Caucasus , Dialogues of the Gods , Dialogues of the Sea Gods , Dialogues of the Dead , Menippus or Necyomancy , Caron or the Contemplators , Sacrifices .
Volume 2: The sects at auction , The fisherman or the resuscitated , The passage or the tyrant , The men of letters who are pledged to Great , Apology for an engagement with the great , On a fault made by saluting , Hermotime or the choice of sects , Herodotus or Aetion , Zeuxis or Antiochus , Harmonide , The Scythian or the Stranger , How to Write the Story , The True Story , The Tyrant's Slayer , The Disinherited Son , Phalaris First Speech , Phalaris second speech .
Volume 3: Alexander or the false prophet , Dance , Toxaris or friendship , Lucius or the donkey , Jupiter confused , Jupiter the tragic , The dream or the cock , Icaromenipus or the air traveler , The double accusation or the Courts , Portraits , For portraits, defense of the previous dialogue , The life of Demonax, The eunuch , The loves .
Volume 4: The parasite , Astrology , Anacharsis or body exercises , Mourning , The master of the speakers , The leader of inclinations or the incredulous , Hippias or bath , Preface or Hercules , Amber or Swans , Against an ignorant who bought many books , From the denouncement , Men who lived a long time , Dialogue of courtesans , The death of Peregrinus , Fugitive slaves , Praise of an apartment , The bad grammarian .
Volume 5: The Ship or the Wishes , The Saturnalia , Cronosolon or the Saturnal Legislator , The Banquet or Lapiths , The Syrian Goddess , Praise of Demosthenes , The Assembly of the Gods , Praise of the Fly , Praise of the Fatherland , The Dipsades , Conversation with Hesiod , The Cynic , Philopatris or the Catechumen , Charidemus or Beauty , Nero or the project of piercing the Isthmus of Corinth , The drop, tragi-comedy .
Volume 6: Critical remarks on the text of Lucien less
Details
- Dimensions
- 12ʺW × 5.25ʺD × 8ʺH
- Styles
- French
- Neoclassical
- Country of Origin
- France
- Period
- Late 18th Century
- Place of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Leather
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Very good; square spines hinges intact (leather breaking in general peripheral areas (primarily affects front hinges of 4 volumes; spine … moreVery good; square spines hinges intact (leather breaking in general peripheral areas (primarily affects front hinges of 4 volumes; spine cords appear tight/strong), very sparse spotting of free end papers and title pages, bright and tight text pages. less
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