Accession number:
PML 127064
Published:
Paris : Martinum Iuvenem, 1574.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1990.
Description:
p. : ; 26 cm.
Notes:
First edition of the first book of Choppin, celebrated French jurist.
Contemporary Parisian flexible vellum binding with gold-blocked arabesque center- and corner-pieces, gilt edges; created for Nicolas de Thou, uncle of Jacques Auguste de Thou.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Vellum.
Provenance:
Nicolas de Thou, Bishop of Chartres.
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