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TERENTIUS, Publius Afer

Les comédies de Térence avec la traduction et les remarques de MADAME DACIER

Hamburg, London
Anna Vandenhoeck
1732

€80 - €140

3 vol., in-12mo, vol. I: [VIII], LIV, 443 pp, 415 pp, 369 pp, engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on title page, 47 engravings illustrating theatre scenes, (one tear repaired without loss). Slightly age-toned. All three volumes in uniform half leather bindings with title and volume number on the spine. Slight damage to the leather at the bottom of the spine of volume III. Very good copy

Ownership note in the form of a stamp of Joh. F. Snelleman present on the inside of the boards. Bilingual Latin-French edition. Under her father's tutelage, Anne Le Fèvre better known during her lifetime as MADAME DACIER, quickly learned Latin and Greek and demonstrated a precocious skill for the translation of the classics into French. Madame Dacier published new translations of Plautus, Aristophanes, and Terence and collaborated with her husband on several translations, notably new French versions of Plutarch and Marcus Aurelius. Like many 18th-century intellectual women, she faced sexism and criticism of her work during her lifetime

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