Live auction - Lot 773
[Hagiography]
La vie et miracles de Saincte Fare, fondatrice et première abbesse de Fare-Monstier en Brie.
REGNAULT, Robert
Hammer price: €
280
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
Paris, S. Cramoisy, 1626
8vo: [22]-447 pp. (sl. marg. damp stains in begin. and at end, occ. sl. soiling).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (rubbed, head missing, joints splitting, one wormhole in spine).
Rare first edition of the biography of St Fare (c. 595-c. 655), founder and first Abbess of the Abbey of Faremoutiers. Illustrated with 5 full-page copper-engr. by Ch. David after D. Rabel.
Ref. Cioranescu 58609.
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