Anon.? LES TRAITS DE L'HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE, SACRÉE ET PROFANE. D'APRÈS LES PLUS GRANDS PEINTRES ET LES MEILLEURS ÉCRIVAINS. DEDIES A MONSEIGNEUR LE DUC DE BOURGOGNE. Ouvrage destiné principalement à l'éducation de la jeunesse, et propre encore à l'instruction ou à l'amusement des personnes de tout âge et de tout sexe. Par le Sieur LE MAIRE. Graveur. L'HISTOIRE POËTIQUE. TOME I. 3eme Edition (Paris, 1761) - TOME II (Paris, 1762) |
| This rare text illustrating "poetical history" represents the histoire profane sequel (peculiarly billed as a troisième édition) to l'Abbé Aubert's Traits de l'histoire universelle, a work starting with four volumes of histoire sacrée which were also illustrated by Le Maire, also published in 1760-1762; Le Bas published a further edition of Aubert as well as our volumes* in 1771. Our volumes consist of an unascribed bilingual text to accompany plates (mainly Le Maire's) illustrating the Metamorphoses along with short interspersed series of scenes drawn from Homer and Virgil and a gallery of Muses by way of conclusion, with captions derived from Ausonius; the plates owe much to Goltzius, Diepenbeeck, and Le Temple des Muses, and anticipate some of Le Mire-Basan's Métamorphoses gravées (Paris, 1770). |
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