Accession number:
PML 2008
Published:
A Lion : Chez Guillaume Rouille, a l'escu de Venise ; A Paris : de l'imprimerie d'Olivier de Harsy, M.D.LVIII-M.D.LXX [1558-1570].
Description:
2 volumes ; 32 cm (fol)
Notes:
Printer's devices on title pages; initials.
Volume 2 printed in Paris by O. de Harsy.
Pagination: vol. 1: [20], 604, [12]; vol. 2: [54], 650, [2] pages.
Signatures: vol. 1: *⁶, [alpha]⁴ [beta]⁶, a-z⁴ A-E⁴, F⁶ G-ZZ⁴, aa-ff⁴, ²*⁶ (*6 blank); vol. 2: āā⁸ ēē⁶ īī⁶ ōō⁸ a-z⁶ A-Z⁶ Aa-Gg⁶ Hh⁸
Includes indexes.
Binding:
16th-century French (Lyon?) brown calf, gilt tooled and painted, with medallions of Henri II. Name of owner "Lois de Ste. Maure, marquis de Nelle," on obverse & "Conte de Jogny et Laval" on reverse covers.
Provenance:
Louis de Sainte-Maure, marquis de Nesle (1515-1572), binding; Charles Lormier, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part II, 20-24 May 1902, lot 750; Librairie Damascene Morgand (Rahir et Cie.), inv. no. 27097, Bulletin mensuel, n.s. no. 2 (Janvier 1905), no. 802; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Rahir, 15 June 1905.
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