Ventes live - Lot 1392
[St. Omer imprint]
Epistres dorées de S. Hierome, traduites de Latin en François [...].
St. Omer, Fr. Bellet, 1602
€ 400 / 500
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Description du lot
12mo: [24]-299-[1 bl.] pp. (3 leaves missing: A1 (blank?), E5 & E6; toned, stain in top inner margin, blank piece of title fore-edge margin cut out and underlaid).
19th-c. gilt quarter red leather, marbled endpapers, pink silk marker. Good copy.
Only recorded copy of the 1st book printed at St. Omer. Francois Bellet, a cousin of Jan Moretus, settled in St. Omer in 1602, but moved to Ypres in 1608. Woodcut Jesuit device on title.
Ref. USTC ("no copy currently identified"). - Not in Simoni (BL).
Prov. Old ownership entries on title (partly deleted). - "Lud. Deschamps de Pas de St. Omer", i.e. the St. Omer engineer and antiquary Louis Deschamps de Pas (1816-1890) (armorial bookpl.).