ILLUSTRÉS and miscellaneous. -Set of 8 volumes. - Lot 6

ILLUSTRÉS and miscellaneous. -Set of 8 volumes. -Anacreon, Sapho, Bion and Moschus. Traduction nouvelle en prose, suivie de La Veillée des fêtes de Vénus, et d'un choix de pièces de différens auteurs. À Paphos, et se trouve à Paris, chez Le Boucher, 1773-[1774]. In-8, gilt-edged brown calf, corners and lower headband restored (period binding). First edition of these translations of Greek classics by Julien-Jacques Moutonnet de Clairfonds. Copper-engraved illustrations outside and inside the text, mainly after Charles Eisen. Bound with: Musée et Théocrite. Héro et Léandre de Musée et quelques idylles de Théocrite. ÀSestos, et se trouve à Paris, chez LeBoucher, 1774. In-8, some marginal wetness. First edition of these translations, by the same Julien-Jacques Moutonnet de Clairfonds. Copper-engraved frontispiece after Charles Eisen. Provenance: William Vincens Bouguereau (bookplate). -Anthologie françoise, ou Chansons choisies, depuis le 13esiècle jusqu'à présent. [Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou], 1765. 3 volumes in-8, ornate blond calf; worn binding (period binding). Copper-engraved plates hors texte after Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Hubert-François Bourguignon d'Anville dit Gravelot. Printed notated music. Without the supplement volume published the same year containing Chansons joyeuses by Charles Collé. Provenance: William Vincens Bouguereau (copper-engraved bookplate). -Basan (Pierre-François). Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes, depuis l'origine de la gravure. ÀParis, chez l'auteur, Cuchet, Prault, 1789. One volume in-8 (volume 2 only), ornate fawn calf; bindings a little worn, some leaves stained or with marginal wetness (period binding). First illustrated edition of this work originally published in 1767. Out-of-text copper-engraved plates by numerous artists. -Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caronde). LaFolle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro, comedy. Del'imprimerie de la Société littéraire-typographique; et se trouve à Paris, chez Ruault 1785. In-8, half calf tobacco threadbare; binding a little rubbed, some marginal wetness (period binding). Published the same year as the original. 5 copper-engraved plates after Jacques-Philippe-Joseph de Saint-Quentin. Provenance: William Vincens Bouguereau (copper-engraved bookplate). -LYON: Relation des entrées solemnelles dans la ville de Lyon, de nos rois, reines, princes, princesses, cardinals, legats, autres grands personnages, depuis CharlesVI, jusques à présent. ÀLyon, de l'imprimerie d'Aymé Delaroche, 1752. Large in-4, ornate marbled brown basane; worn binding with some spotting (period binding). First edition commissioned by the consuls of Lyon. Copper-engraved vignettes of the city's coat of arms in the text. Copy with the Lyon coat of arms. Provenance: magistrate and collector Louis-Antoine Moutonnat (1754-1834), who was the first curator of the Lyon museum (printed bookplate vignette); then William Vincens Bouguereau (copper-engraved bookplate vignette). -Office de la Semaine-Sainte, latin et françois, pour chaque jour de la semaine. S.l.n.n., 1783. Large in-8, garnet-red morocco (period binding). The only volume devoted to Holy Saturday, out of 6 in the edition. Copy with unidentified female arms (OHR, pl.n°219).