Live auction - Lot 697
[Philosophy]
Le trésor de sapie[n]ce & fleur de toute bonte [...]].
(Lyon, O. Arnoullet, 20 February 1540)
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [95 (of 96)] ff. (title missing; toned, margins dampstained).
Disbound (ff. A2 loose and M8 loosening). In all a good copy.
Extremely rare (unique?) later ed. (1st 1530) of a moral and philosophical treatise by the French Augustinian preacher Jacques Legrand (Magni/Magnus, 1365-1425), also known as "Livre de bonnes moeurs". It was translated into English by William Caxton as "Book of Good Manners" (1487). Printed in Gothic type. Large woodcut (Flight to Egypt) on M8r.
Ref. Not in Baudrier, USTC, WorldCat.
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