Accession number
PML 199088
Creator
Du Bellay, Martin, sieur de Langey, 1495-1559.
Published
A Paris : A l'Olivier de P. l'Huillier, rue S. Iacques, 1572.
Description
[6], 352, [6] leaves ; 39.5 cm (fol)
Notes
"Oeuvre mis nouvellement enlumiere, & presenté au Roy par Mess. René de Bellay, Chevalier de l'Ordre de sa Majesté, Baron de la Lande, heritier d'iceluy Mess. Martin du Bellay." -- below title on title page.
Signed at end: "Achevé d'imprimer le 28
Signed at end: "Achevé d'imprimer le 28
Binding
Late-16th century French calf, gold-tooled cornerpieces 'a la fanfare'; Choiseul-Beaupré armorial added later.
Provenance
Claude-Antoine-Clériadus Choiseul-Beaupré (1733-1793), gilt armorials (see Guidard, Armorial du bibliophile, II: 142) added to binding, his sale, Paris, 1790; Léon Techener, his sale: Paris, Catalogue des livres précieux, 4-8 May 1886, lot 706; James
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