Live auction - Lot 892
[World history]
Histoire ou Commentaires de toutes choses memorables, advenues depuis LXX. ans en ça par toutes les parties du monde [...]. Nouuellement mis en François par Iacq. Estourneau Xaintongeois [2nd ed.].
Paris, G. Chaudière, 24 May 1572
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-445-[1, 2 bl.] ff.
Contemp. limp overl. vellum, spine titled in ink (lower joint split, head and tail def.). Good copy.
Rare French translation of the Latin world history 1500-1570 by the Carthusian scholar Surius (1522-1578), with references to the "New World". Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Alden/Landis 572/59. - Pettegree FB 48664. - Not in Adams, STC French (BL).
Prov. Old ownership entry on front flyleaf, Carthusian presentation inscription on title. - [Georges Petit].