Des guerres des rommains, livre XI [...]. Le tout traduict en françoys par feu M. Claude de Seyssel [...]. Le tout veu et corrigé, depuis la première impression.

8vo: [20]-446 ff. (slightly soiled, wormhole in the margins of 1st pp., dampstains).

Cont. blind-stamped calf, covers decorated with tools in the center ruled with a large rollstamp (with portraits) and fillets, spine on raised bands (upper joint split, part of lower turn-in and the upper one entirely lacking, partly rubbed, corners bumped, ms. entry on lower pastedown crossed out).

New edition of the translation by de Seyssel (d. 1520), Savoyard jurist and humanist, first published in Lyon in 1544. Ref. Pettegree (FB) 1526. - STC French p. 21. - Not in Adams. Joined: [DIOGENES LAERTIUS - [...] De vitis, dogm. & apophth. clarorum philosophorum, libri X. Geneva, H. Estienne, 1593 or 1594?]. 8vo (lacking several pp., foxing, wormhole in the margin of first ff., tiny wor mholes in the margins, hole in the last f.), 18th-c. calf, gilt boards and spine on raised bands with a semé of fleur-de-lis framed, a.e.g. Greek text facing the Latin translation. The signatures are completely different compared to the bibliographies and library catalogues for the 1593 and 1594 editions. Ref. Adams D-483/484. - GLN 3609 or 3707. - Not in Pettegree (other ed.). Prov. Supralibros on the Diogenes of Charles L'Argentier, marquis of Chapelaine and l'Esguillon, bailiff of Troyes. - Both books [Georges Petit]. (Together 2 works)