MISCELLANY - LONGUS (2nd-century AD). Daphnis et Chloé, Paris, 1872, 8vo, illustrations, FINELY BOUND in red morocco gilt by W. Pratt. With 13 miscellaneous works in 25 volumes. Please see the full description below. (26)

MISCELLANY - LONGUS (2nd-century AD).  Daphnis et Chloé. Traduction d' Amot. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. 8vo (160 x 102mm). Half title, etched and wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes by Émile Lévy and Hector Giacomelli, text within red ruled border (browned and spotted throughout). FINELY BOUND in full red morocco gilt by W. Pratt, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine gilt in compartments with repeated floral motif, top edges gilt, others uncut, original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Alfred Braithwaite & Edward Locke Tomlin (armorial bookplates). With 13 miscellaneous works in 25 volumes including Molière's Oeuvres ... Avec des Remarques Grammaticales, des Avertissemens, et des Observations sur Chaque Piece, par M. Bret (London, 1809, 8 volumes, 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary full speckled calf gilt, the spines with red and black morocco lettering pieces), John Cary's Traveller's Companion, or, A Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales (London, 1812, 8vo, hand-coloured county and regional maps, some folding, modern half calf gilt), Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian's Contes Populaires. Troisième Édition (Paris, [n.d.], 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary full speckled calf gilt), The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse ... Seventieth Edition (Oxford, 1861, small 8vo, mounted photographed plates, original morocco gilt, with the bookplate of JOHN COUCH ADAMS,1819-92, British astronomer and mathematician), George Bidwell's Forging his Chains. The Autobiography of George Bidwell, the Famous Ticket-of-Leave Man ... His Trial and Incarceration in English Prisons Fourteen Years on a Life Sentence for "The $5,000,000 Forgery on the Bank of England" (New York, "The Bidwell Publishing Company" [i.e. self-published], 1889, large 8vo, plates, half morocco gilt, much repaired) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions (Paris, [c.1920], 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates by Maurice Leloir, original wrappers). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (26)