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De l'origine des Bourgongnons, et antiquité des estats de Bourgongne , deux livres : plus, des antiquitez d'Autun, liure 1, De Chalon, 2, De Mascon, 3, De l'Abbaye & ville de Tournus, 1. / Par Pierre de Sainct Iulien, de la maison de Balleurre, Doyen de Chalon.

Accession number
PML 125270
Creator
Saint-Julien, Pierre de, ca. 1520-1593.
Published
Paris : Chez Nicolas Chesneau, M.D.LXXXI.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
In 6 parts, each, except the first, with special title page; paging and signatures continuous.
Parts 2 and 3 have imprint date: M.D.LXXX.
Title vignette: Chesneau's device; variant on special title pages.
Colophon: Achevé d'imprimer a Paris par Henry Thierry ... le 10. iour de Iuin, 1581.
"Extraict du privilege du roy" dated: le 30. iour de May 1567.
Publisher's note on verso of map of Dijon (leaf ĩlr) dated: De Paris ce 14. Iuin 1581.
Woodcut tailpieces incorporate Chesneau's mark; printed marginal notes.
Descriptive text on verso of maps of Dijon and Beaune; 4 sonnets by Pierre Tamisier on verso of map of Tournus.
For full description see Harvard University. Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts. cat. of Books and manuscripts, pt. 1, French 16th century books, v. 2, no. 479.
Library's copy imperfect (book not in hand).
Description
12 p. ℓ., 674 p., 17 ℓ. : woodcuts: col. coat of arms, diagr., head & tailspieces, initials, 6 maps (1 fold., 4 double, 1 double and fold.) ; 35 cm (fol.)
Provenance
From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary parchment over paperboards; manuscript waste; lacking spine and lower board; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department