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La cyropedie de Xenophon : de la vie & institucion de Cyrus Roy des Perses. / traduite de Grec par Iaques des Comtes de Vintemille Rhodien, Conseiller du Roy au Parlement de Dijon.

Accession number
PML 199045
Creator
Xenophon, author.
Published
A Lion : Par Ian de Tournes, 1555
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
[24], 248, [8] pages ; 23 cm (4to)
Notes
Signatures: A-C⁴ a-z⁴ A-I⁴.
Title within woodcut border with grotesque heads, woodcut printer's device on I4v, woodcut initials (historiated, floriated, criblé), woodcut headpiece, type-ornament tailpieces. Ruled in red.
Binding
French calf (255 x 168 mm), ca. 1555, tooled in gold and inlaid, large arabesque oval block in center within a gougework architectonic cartouche, large corner-pieces of cornucopia with floral motifs in negative against hatched ground, surrounding central
Provenance
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876, with his exlibris; Maurice Delestre & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, Livres précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, faisant partie de la bibliothèque de M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot: Théologie, jurisprudence, sciences, arts, lettres,
Classification
Century
Department