L’histoire de Palmerin d’Olive, filz du roy Florendos de Macedone, & de la belle Griane, fille de Remicius Empereur de Constantinople [...] [trsl. from the Spanish by “Ian Maugin, dit le petit Angeuin”].

4to: [8]-223-[1] ff. (sl. toned, blank top title margin skilfully strengthened, sm. stain on ff. 151-152, 212).

19th-c. gilt green morocco, covers with double gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine on 5 raised bands, gilt sides, gilt inside dentelles, marbl. endpapers. Very good copy.

Very rare Antwerp ed. of the French trsl. (1st Paris 1546) of the Spanish chivalric novel “Palmerín de Oliva” (Salamanca 1511). This was one of the books against which Cervantes inveighs as responsible for the mental condition of Don Quixote. 37 woodcuts in text. Printed in 2 cols. Title within elaborate woodcut border. Ref. BT 3922 (only 2 copies in Belgium: KBR & MPM). - Palau 210479. - Pettegree FB 40407 = NB 23506. - STC (BL) Dutch 165 = French 484. - Not in Adams. Prov. Van Havre, i.e. the Belgian politician and collector Gustave van Havre (1817-1892) (armorial bookpl.).