Online auction - Lot 132

[Popular literature - Werewolf]

L’histoire du noble preux et vaillant chevalier Guillaume de Palerne & de la belle Melior [...].

Rouen, Wid. L. Costé, [1632]


Starting bid: € 25


Hammer price: € 90

€ 50 / 80

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Lot description

4to: [56] ff. (toned and spotted, hole in E3 with loss of a few letters).

Mod. quarter vellum, marbl. paper boards, flat spine. Good copy printed on poor quality paper.

Abbreviated prose version of a medieval French romance on "William of Palerne". Woodcut on title (repeated at the end). Printed in 2 col.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Goldsmith (BL), Le livre populaire, USTC.
Prov. Ownership entries on title (partly deleted). - Émile van Heurck, Belgian folklorist, 1871-1931 (coloured bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].

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Lot 132

L’histoire du noble preux et vaillant chevalier Guillaume de Palerne & de la belle Melior [...].

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