Le Clerc (Sébastien) [Collection of engravings, probably removed from Isaac de Benserade's 'Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux'], 2 vol., 212 engravings by Le Clerc & others, with contemporary ink manuscript titles and descriptions to facing numbered plates on verso of preceding plate and indices at end, all in neat hand presumably by Wm. M. Sale with his signature to upper margin of first plate in each volume, some light soiling, a few on thinner paper with letterpress to verso (cropped), bookplates of Wm. Michel Sale, Thos. Pennington of Bledlow, Bucks., and Montagu Pennington Sparrow, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, rubbed, oblong 8vo, [Paris], [?1676]; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return
⁂ William Michel Sale was the son of the orientalist George Sale (1697-1736) who translated the Koran into English, and the father-in-law of Thomas Pennington.
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