Live auction - Lot 769

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De la cité de Dieu: contenant le commencement et progrez d'icelle cité, avec une defense de la religion chrestienne contre les erreurs & mesdisances des ge[n]tils, heretiques [...].

Paris, N. Chesneau (print. N. Bruslé), (18th July) 1570

€ 350 / 500

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Folio: [20]-364-[24]-356-[32] pp. (some foxing, waterstains on first and last lvs, occ. sm. stains, marg. wormholes in squire FF, 8 cm tear on f. MM6, corners bumped on first lvs, upper endpaper partially loose).

Contemp. limp overlap. vellum, ms. title on upper board and on spine (sl. soiled, some wormholes and lacks on a corner and a flap, some tears on the flaps, rests of ties). Good copy.

French translation by Gentian Hervet (1499-1584) with comments by Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540). Printer's mark on title. Old ms. notes in French and Latin on the endpapers, from two different hands. Ref. USTC 14217.- Pettegree (FB) 2239.- STC French Books 34.- Not in Adams, Matagne. Prov. Prunier de Saint-André, family of Dauphiné parliamentarians since the beginning of the 16th c. (armorial bookpl.; ref. http://www.bibliotheque-dauphinoise.com). - [Georges Petit].

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Lot 769

De la cité de Dieu: contenant le commencement et progrez d'icelle cité, avec une defense de la religion chrestienne contre les erreurs & mesdisances des ge[n]tils, heretiques [...].

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