Lot n° 333
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: 450EUR
Various texts. Set of autograph manuscripts,... - Lot 333 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Various texts. Set of autograph manuscripts, most of them by the hand of Abbé d'Olivet.
- Manuscript of a warning to the reader, in Latin with, on the back, indications for the title and the dedication to the Dauphin. 2 pp. in-4.
- Manuscript in Latin, 2 pp. in-4: "Dialogus Platonis qui Phaedrus inscribitus, totus est de Rhetorica".
- 9 note sheets, remarks and comments on translations from books, most of them in Latin. On the back of one of them, this mention: "This is about the Anti Lucretius".
- A leaflet of 2 pp. in-4 in a folder titled "Letters of Fr. Oudin". "But I am convinced that it is not possible to translate Horace's Odes well; and that the most beautiful one is not worth the time and trouble that a mediocre translation must cost []".
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