La Pharsale de Lucain. traduite en François par M. Marmontel.
Paris: Chez Merlin, Librairie, rue de la Harpe, 1766.
Price: $600.00
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Frontis., [1] f., lxxix, [i] 304 pp., [1 ,errata] ; 5 plates. II: 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). [1] f., 315, [1] pp., [2] ff.; 5 plts. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled French calf, marbled edges. Bookplate of Gustave Charles Antoine Maruie van Havre and small booklabel of Douglas Maxwell Moffat (1881-1956). Sales receipt from Myers & Co, London ,1939. Pretty copy. Cohen & DeRicci 662.
Item #260132
The Pharsalia (also known as De Bello Civili "On the Civil War" ) is a great Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 CE - April 30, 65 CE] iwhich tells of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey and The Battle of Pharsalia (48 BC).
