Dialogorum de linguae Gallicae origine, eiusque cum Graeca cognatione libri quatuor [...].

8vo: [36]-149 ff. (some light marginal dampstaining in bl. margins, rare contemp. ms. annot.).

Contemp. calf, blind-st. central element on covers surrounded by blind-ruled fillets and gilt fleurons, gilt. ornam. spine with raised bands (spine repaired, some sm. def.).

Rare first edition of this treatise by the Benedictine Périon (1498/99-1559) in which, after Budé, he defended the thesis of the Greek origin of the French language. He's a humanist known for being one of the translators of the Aristotelian corpus using the method imported from Italy and invented by Leonardo Bruni, inspired by Ciceronian Latin.
Ref. USTC 78175 = Pettegree (FB) 42853. - BnF. - Opac Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. - Not in Adams, STC French (BL), UNICAT.
Prov. Pierre de Laporte, Chambéry (ms. ownership entry, 16th c.). - Guilielmus Furnius, jurist (ms. ownership entry, 16th c.). - Unidentified stamp "Bibliotheca Ch. ?".