EUSTATHE MACREMBOLITE. The loves of Ismene and... Lot 1665

[EUSTATHE MACREMBOLITE]. The loves of Ismene and Ismenias, followed by those of Abrocome & Anthia. Geneva, sn, 1782. In-16, [2] ff. 272 pp. with a frontispiece engraved by Delaunay after Marillier, red morocco, smooth spine decorated, title page, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, inner garland (period binding). The first edition of this translation by Pierre-François Godard de Bauchamps (1689-1761) appeared in 1729; it was reprinted in 1743. The author of this love novel in the genre of late antiquity is a Byzantine writer of the twelfth century, Eustathius Macrembolite, almost unknown. As for Les Amours d'Abrocome et d'Anthia, it is the other title of the Ephesiacs, a novel by Xenophon of Ephesus, or Xenophon the Younger. (Cioranescu, XVIII, 31381. Brunet II, 1113-1114.) A fine copy.