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OVID, Publius Ovidius Naso. [Metamorphoses]. Verwandlungen in Kupfern und mit den nöthigen Erlaeuterungen. Herausgegeben von einer Gesellschaft . 3 volumes. Die Haupgötter der Fabel in Kupfern mit ihrer Geschichte und ursprünglichen Bedeutung . Vienna: Ignaz Alberti 1791-93. 4 volumes, 4° (220 x 147mm). Engraved title in each volume, vols.I-III with 140 plates, the supplementary volume with 24 plates, engraved by Benedicti, Mansfeld, Schwalber, etc. after the illustrations to the Paris edition of 1767-71 by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, etc. Contemporary calf, spines gilt. Sander 836a. -- Des vortrefflichen Römischen Poëtens ... Metamorphoseon, oder funffzehen Bücher der Verwandlungen . n.p., n.d. [ca. 1690]. Oblong 2° (202 x 332mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ovid (laid down, with clean tear, slightly soiled) and 150 plates by Wilhelm Bauer, each with caption in Latin and German. Recent half vellum over paper boards -- Joost van den VONDEL (1587-1679). Vorstelijcke Warande der Dieren: waer in de Zeden-rijcke Philosophie, Poëtisch, Morael ... voorgestelt door J.v.V. Amsterdam, Sander Wybrantsz, etc., 1682. 4° (217 x 171mm). Engraved title vignette and 125 large illustrations by Marcus Gerards. Contemporary vellum over paperboards, tooled in blind. -- AESOP. Fabulae Aesopiae edited F.J.Desbillons. Mannheim: Typis Academicis, 1768. 2 vols., 8° (188 x 118mm). 16 engraved plates by Egid. Verhelft. Contemporary calf, spines gilt (head and foot of spines a little worn). -- Christian Fürchtegott GELLERT (1715-69). Fabelen en Vertelsels . Amsterdam: P.Meijer, 1781. 3 vols., 8° (225 x 147mm), engraved title vignettes and 150 plates by J. Buys. Contemporary half calf (spines a little rubbed). (11)