Les exilez de la cour d'auguste.
Amsterdam.
Chez Andre' de Hoogenhuysen, 1695.
12mo.
496pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to title page, scattered spotting.
A late seventeenth century edition of Marie-Catherine de Villedieu's (1640-1683) immensely popular histoire galante novel.
First published in 1673, the book fictionalises the political machinations of Augustan Rome, centred principally on the exile of Ovid.
OCLC records a single copy of this edition, at the Royal Danish Library.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 23060
First published in 1673, the book fictionalises the political machinations of Augustan Rome, centred principally on the exile of Ovid.
OCLC records a single copy of this edition, at the Royal Danish Library.
