ACHILLES, Tatius Les amours de Clitophon et Leucippe,... Lot 5

[ACHILLES, Tatius] Les amours de Clitophon et Leucippe, oeuvre très-utile et délectacle, où sont déduits et éclaircis plusieurs points, tant des histoires anciennes que de toutes les parties de la philosophie, nouvellement traduit en langaige françois: par L. Annibal italien. Lyon B. Rigaud 1586 16mo: 514-[2 bl.] pp. (clear dampstains to first ff., tear to lower margin of p. 177). 19th-c. olive green morocco, triple giltruled covers with flower tool in the corners, gilt orn. flat spine, a.e.g., gilt inside dentelle (traces of use, front joint starting to split, a few ff. cut short). French translation by François de Belleforest (1st ed.: 1568) of Achilles' work, based on the Latin translation of Luigi Annibale della Croce. It is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances. Achilles Tatius of Alexandria (2nd c.) converted to Christianism at the end of his life and became bishop according to the Suda. Medallion portrait on title. Some ornamental initials (2 dotted). Ref. Baudrier III:393. - Bibl. Gay-Lemonnyer I:135. - Pettegree (FB) 144. - Hoffmann I:3. - Cp. Barbier I:149 (ed. of Amsterdam 1733). - Not in Adams, STC French.