MUSEUM. - Lot 45

MUSEUM. Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro: poëme du Musée le grammairien, translated from Greek into French, with text. Paris: Nyon le jeune, 1784. - In-12, lemon morocco, boards decorated with gilded Du Seuil-style decoration, ornate ribbed spine, gilt roulette inside, untrimmed (19th-century binding). First edition of the French translation by Gabriel de La Porte du Theil (1742-1815) of the famous poem by the Greek poet Musée, offering the text in its original version with a translation alongside. It is illustrated with a handsome frontispiece engraved by Robert de Launay after Charles Nicolas Cochin, depicting Léandre leading l'Amour as he is greeted by Héro. ONE OF THE RARE COPIES ON HOLLANDE PAPER, UNTRIMMED. A very fine copy from the library of P. Dupont. Provenance: P. Dupont, with bookplate. - Note on verso of first endpaper: "Souvenir de mon ami Marc Loliée offert ai Nouvel an 1957".