MARTIAL. - Lot 178

MARTIAL. All Martial's Epigrams in Latin, and in French. Avec de petites nottes (sic). Divisées en deux parties. A Paris, chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1655, 2 volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary limp vellum, titles handwritten in ink on the spines. Illustrated with two engraved title-frontispieces. First French translation by Michel de Marolles. Joint : John LOCKE. De l'éducation des enfans; Translated from the English by Pierre Coste. Sur la dernière Edition revûe, corrigée, et augmentée de plus de un tiers par l'Auteur. A Amsterdam, chez Henri Schelte, 1708, in-12 bound in full contemporary vellum, smooth spine titled in ink. Coste had already published a translation of Locke's work in 1695, based on the first English edition of 1693. He presents here a new translation based on the fifth English edition, which is more complete than the previous ones.