Classics. [Virgil] & Delille (Jacques, translator), L'Ho...

Hammer

£120

Classics. [Virgil] & Delille (Jacques, translator), L'Homme des Champs, ou Les Géorgiques Françoises, Paris: Chez Levrault, Schoell et Cie. (L'Imprimerie de P. Didot L'Aine), 1805, half-title, 5 finely hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 8 vignettes conforming, half-title with marginal water stain, some foxed portions in places throughout, fine binding of contemporary French straight-grained crimson red morocco gilt, slightly sunned spine, a trifle rubbed, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [Cohen-de Ricci 279] 

Provenance: Benjamin Linnig, contemporary Belgian etched book label to recto pastedown.