Live auction - Lot 1391
De l'origine des estrenes. Discours historique & moral, contenu dans une lettre.
[Lyon], s.n., 1673
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: 35 pp. (some very min. faint spotting).
Later long grain maroon leather (very tiny def. at lower spine), triple gilt border on covers, gilt orn. flat spine, gilt sides, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Good copy.
First edition by the French doctor and archaeologist Spon (1647-1685), pioneer in the exploration of the monuments of Greece and a scholar of international reputation in the developing "Republic of Letters".
Ref. Barbier II:525. - Brunet V:499. - BnF.
Prov. Prof. Deneux (bookpl.).