Live auction - Lot 7
[Littérature classique]
Epigrammata et poemata vetera [...] [ed. Pierre Pithou].
€ 180 / 250
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Lot description
[Geneva], J. Chouet, 1596 (col.: Lyon, A. Candidus)
8vo: [8]-616 pp. (fold. pp. 375-376 bound at the end).
Cont. overl. vellum, spine titled in ink, sp. edges. Nice copy.
Scholarly edition of minor classical Latin poetry by the French humanist lawyer Pierre Pithou (1539-1596). One of 3 issues of this repr. of Pithou’s 1590 ed. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. GLN 5991. - Gilmont (GLN 15-16) 3367. - Baudrier XII:487. - Cp. Adams E-239/240 (other issues). - Not in STC French (BL). Prov. Jean (1894-1959) et Jeanne Hubaux (mod. bookpl.). Joined: Mosantus Briosius, Jacobus – Poemata. Caen, J. Cavelier, 1663. 8vo: [10]-184 pp. (toned). Cont. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (sl. soiled). Caen ed. of the collected Latin verse of Jacques Moisant de Brieux (1611-1674). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Goldsmith (BL) M-1163. - Not in Oberlé. Prov. Anselme vanden Bogaerde (1776-1866), Bruges collector (ticket). - Jean et Jeanne Hubaux (mod. bookpl.).