L'Iliade d'Homere
Contributors: La Valterie, de, active 1680, translator; Bouttats, Pieter Balthasar, 1666-1755, engraver; Veuve de Claude Barbin, 1643?-1707, bookseller; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: Troisième edition, revuë, & corrigée
Publisher: Chez la veuve Claude Barbin, au Palais, sur le second perron de la Sainte Chapelle
Published: 1708
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Work titles: Iliad
Notes: Paged continuously, pt. 1: [18], 262, [2] pages; pt. 2: [2], 265-547, [1] pages

A prose translation by M. de la Valterie

Includes plates with engravings by P.B. Bouttats

Added engraved title page

Device on title page

Headpieces, tailpieces, and initials

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

In French; translated from the original Greek

Rare Book copy: From the library of Dr. Jakob Berger, with his bookplate. From Graf Spangensche Bibliothek, with its stamp. Autograph on upper flyleaf: "C[om]tesse de [Laplesvoye?], Vienne de h. 1801."

Rare Book copy: Bound in full brown sprinkled leather; spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments, with red lettering piece; board edges gilt with a decorative roll; sprinkled text edges.