Barbou, collection des classiques latins, collection of 35 v - Lot 19

Barbou, collection des classiques latins, collection of 35 volumes in publisher's bindings. -Plautus, Marci Accii Plauti, comoediae quae supersunt, 1759, 3 vols. -Tacitus, C. Cornelii Taciti, quae exstant opera, 1760, 3 vols. -Martial, M. Valerii Martialis, epigrammatum libri ; ad optimos codices recensiti & castigati, 1754, 3 vols. -César, C. Julii Caesaris, commentariorum de bello Gallico, libri septem, 1755, 2 vols.-Horace, Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina, nitori suo restituta, 1754.-Quinte-Curce, Q. Curtii Rufi, de rebus gestis Alexandri magni, libri decem, 1757. -Lucrèce, Titi Lucretii Cari, de rerum natura libri sex, 1754. -Juvenal, Decii Junii Juvenalis, satirarum libri quinque, 1754. -Pliny, Caii Plinii Secundi, historiae naturalis libri XXXVII, quos recensuit, 1779, 6 vols. -Cicero, M. Tullii Ciceronis, opera, recensuit J.N. Lallemand, 1768, 14 vols. Together in very good condition, 2 damaged covers. A family of printers and booksellers active in Lyon, Limoges and Paris from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. In 1754, Joseph Gérard took over the collection of Latin classics in in-12 format published by Antoine Coustelier and designed by Abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy in the Elzevier tradition. He continued its publication, printing it on quality paper with Fournier le Jeune type, using renowned engravers and binding the volumes in marbled calf. Around 1780, the collection comprised thirty-four titles in sixty-eight volumes (Sabine Juratic-Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre-214).