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Live auction - Lot 1155
Live auction - Lot 1155
Early Chalon-sur-Saône binding and prize book (awarded in 1635).
[Prize binding - Latin grammar]
Polyonymia […] de particulis latinae locutionis [...].
Lyon, Wid. Cl. Rigaud [= Marguerite Niobert] & Cl. Obert, 1631
Hammer price: €
420
€ 180 / 220
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Lot description
12mo: [4]-338-[172-2 bl.] pp.
Contemp. richly gold-tooled morocco, covers with large armorial centre-piece and elaborate orn. pieces within a gilt border, richly gilt flat spine, a.e.g. (sm. def. at corners and at front tail joint, central arms sl. cut into). Very good copy.
Extremely rare Lyon reprint of "De particulis Latinae locutionis" (Rome 1598) of the Italian Jesuit O. Torsellini (1544-1589). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Cp. DBS VIII:147:10 (1630 ed.). - USTC ("lost book").
Prov. Gilt central arms with surrounding inscription: "Ex dono Claudi Tisserand Prioris S. Petri Cabilon", i.e. Claude Tisserand de Chalange, "grand prieur et vicaire général de l’abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Pierre de Chalon-sur-Saône" and date 1635. - Two arm. bookpl., i.a. Gilbert Mainssonat (also with ms. mention at top f. 2r).
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