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Strasbourg: Levrault, 1800 . First edition. Leather. Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated. A first French translation of the Georgics by Jacques Delille, with a frontispiece. A first edition of this French translation of Virgil's Georgics.Jacques Delille came to national prominence with this translation of the Georgics. The poem is based on the theme of agriculture with tension running throughout it. With a frontispiece. Collated, complete. In full calf binding. Externally, smart with light marks to the boards and splitting to the head and tail of the joints. Previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good
L'Homme Des Champs ou Les Georgiques Francoises by Jaques Delille - 1800
by Jaques Delille
L'Homme Des Champs ou Les Georgiques Francoises
by Jaques Delille
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Strasbourg: A Strasbourg, De L'Imprimerie de Levrault, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, basically tight, square with very good corners and internally unmarked, but there is a gift inscription on the half titles page. the front hinge is beginning and it is lightly rubbed. It has blue end papers and 265, lightly foxed pages (gilt edged all around) in a full leather binding gilt titles and designs on the spine and edges. The glue line on the end papers is darkened.
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- Publisher A Strasbourg, De L'Imprimerie de Levrault
- Place of Publication Strasbourg
- Date Published 1800
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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L'Homme de Champs, ou Les Georgique Francoises
by Jaques Delille
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Les Jardins, Poeme.
by DELILLE, Jaques
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Vienna, Austria
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Paris, Chez Levrault An IX. - 1801.. Nouvelle édition considérablement augmentée. gr.-8°. XXXI, 166 S. Mit gest. Frontispiz (Monciau del. - Choffard sculp.): HLdr. d. Zt. Mit Rückengoldpräg., gest. Wappen des Baron de Bartenstein a. Vorsatz vgl. Graesse II, 45 - Jacques Delille (1738-1813), französischer Dichter. Nachdem der Aufklärer seine Lehrtätigkeit mit einer Professur der lateinischen Poesie am Collège Royal vertauscht hatte, veröffentlichte er 1782 sein erstes größeres Originalwerk, das Lehrgedicht Les jardins, ou l'art d'embellir les paysages, mit dem er sehr erfolgreich wurde, besonders da er auch ein vorzüglicher Vorleser war. Nach seiner Rückkehr von einer Reise nach Konstantinopel, wohin er den französischen Botschafter, Diplomaten und Altertumsforscher Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier begleitet hatte, fand Delille seine Lage durch die Französische Revolution…
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LImagination, poème en VIII chants, accompagné de notes historiques et littéraires, par J. Esménard.
by Delille, Jaques
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Canet de Mar (Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
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Paris, , 1806. . 2 volumenes. 15x9,5 cm. . Chez Giguet et Michaud, Imp-Libraires, I: 276 páginas. 2 láminas fuera de texto, grabadas por Trière. II: 291 páginas. 2 láminas fuera de texto, grabadas por Courbe. Encuadernación en plena piel con hierros dorados y tejuelos en el lomo, filete dorado en los planos. Muy buen estado de conservación.
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