Accession number
PML 1026
Creator
Caviceo, Jacopo, 1443-1511.
Published
Paris : Nicolas Couteau for Galliot du Pré, May 25, 1527.
Notes
Translated from the Italian (which was first printed at Parma in 1508) by François Dassy.
From the libraries of Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Haviàre, princess de Condé (d. 1723) at the sale of whose library at the Anet Chateau in 1724 (n. 16) acquired by Lord Robert Harley, and William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork (1815?-1888), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Quaritch, 12 March 1891, lot 651.
First ed. in French.
Both Brunet (1, 1702) and Murray (Cat. of French Books, 1.79) consider this the First Ed. but the words "nouuellement Imprime a Paris" in the title may indicate an earlier ed. or refer to the eds. in the vernacular preceding it.
Printed on vellum; title printed in red and black; lined in red throughout.
From the libraries of Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Haviàre, princess de Condé (d. 1723) at the sale of whose library at the Anet Chateau in 1724 (n. 16) acquired by Lord Robert Harley, and William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork (1815?-1888), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Quaritch, 12 March 1891, lot 651.
First ed. in French.
Both Brunet (1, 1702) and Murray (Cat. of French Books, 1.79) consider this the First Ed. but the words "nouuellement Imprime a Paris" in the title may indicate an earlier ed. or refer to the eds. in the vernacular preceding it.
Printed on vellum; title printed in red and black; lined in red throughout.
Description
8 prelim. leaves, 169 numb. leaves, 1 leaf : ill.
Binding
Red morocco gilt in brown morocco case.
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