L’Introduction à la sagesse ou La petite morale [...]. Nouvelle traduction.

12mo: [22]-381-[1] pp. (toned, some dampstaining and spotting).

Contemp. sheep, covers with gilt arms, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt label (repaired, rubbed, head and tail def.).

Latin text and a new French translation of "Ad sapientiam introductio", intended to replace the 16th-c. version by Guillaume Paradin. Approbations of 1664 and 1670. Privilege of 1670.
Ref. Estelrich 274.
Prov. Old name on title (crossed out). - Jean-Baptiste Louis Laugeois d’Imbercourt (gilt arms on covers - Dubuisson I:203 - Olivier 2363). - Ch. Taranne, libraire, Paris (bookseller’s ticket). - Eugène Olivier (1881-1964), bibliophile, co-author of the "Manuel de l’amateur des reliures armoriées françaises" (bookpl. by Rouveyre and note pasted on front flyleaf).