ANACREON (?572-?488 B.C.). Odes...traduites en francois, avec le texte grec, la version latine, des notes critiques, et deux dissertations. Paris: Didot l'aone, an VII [1799]. 
4to (272 x 210 mm). Half-title; 17pp. engraved music. (Lacking engraved frontispiece portrait, some light offsetting from engravings, previous owner's label affixed to upper margin p.200.) Contemporary marbled boards (rebacked in modern cloth preserving original spine, overall wear). Provenance: F. W. Christern (booksellers' label).  Later edition, preceded by the first edition of 1794, of Anacreon's lyrical poetic work, translated from the Greek by celebrated French Hellenist, Jean-Baptiste Gail. Cohen de Ricci 81. 


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