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Paul Jérémie Bitaubé, L'Iliad d'Homere, Paris, chez Nyon-Durand-Prault, 1780.
COMPLETE WORK in 3 volumes.
Elegant and refined coeval full leather bindings with rich decorations in "Empire style", with slight wear but overall well preserved. Endpapers in marbled paper. Golden cuts.
Volume I: pp. (VIII), 331, (I). COMPLETE, with the translator's portrait on the frontispiece.
Volume II: pp. (IV), 528. COMPLETE, with a folded plate of the Shield of Achilles.
Volume III: pp. (IV), 573, (III). BUSINESS SUIT.
Exemplars with leaves in overall good condition, only a few damp stains in volume I.
Paul Jérémie Bitaubé (1732-1808) was a famous translator of Homer and a member of the Institut de France and of the Royal Academy of Berlin. 67381373
