Carminum libri quatuor ad Hilermum Bellaium cognomento Langium.

8vo: 76 ff. (paper age-toned, title soiled and mounted, occ. spotting).

Mod. calf, covers with gilt ornamental border, gilt spine with red label, red edges. Good copy.

Very rare 1st larger collection of the poetry of “the French Horace” Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), in his time considered to be the finest Neo-Latin poet of France. Earlier (in 1528) only a small part (16 ff.) of his poems had been published by S. de Colines. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. Renouard 162. - Moreau III:2278. - Pettegree FB 85621. - Not in Adams. - Cp. Schreiber 41 & Oberlé 209 (1528 ed.).