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Paris: J. Barbou, 1780. 12mo (149 x 82 mm.). [2] ff., xxxvi, 319, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece of a gardener in classical setting, by Benoît Louis Prévost, Barbou's woodcut device on title, woodcut, typographic and engraved head- & tailpieces. Publisher's list of other works from the Collection d'Auteurs Latins on last page. Printed on pale blue paper (papier bleuté). Fine. Contemporary French gold-tooled red morocco, covers tooled to a dentelle design, smooth spine gilt with flower tools, edges gilt, blue watered silk liners (light scuffing to extremities, faint stain on front cover). Provenance: bookplates of Charles Lormier (oval monogrammed booklabel with motto Vita sina litteris mors est; sale, Paris, 1901-1907); Jules Lemaître (sale, Paris, 18 June 1917, no. 443); Henri Beraldi (sale, part 3, Paris, 18 Dec. 1934, no. 212); and Alain de Rothschild.*** A beautifully bound, bibliophiles' copy of an erudite edition of Rapin's neo-Latin didactic poem on gardens, first published in 1665,… Read More