Accession number:
PML 127136-39
Published:
Venice : Heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresani [Sons of Aldus], 1535-1540
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Description:
4 v. : ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding:
Bound in contemporary morocco, presumably mid-16th-century French work, gilt-stamped azured arabesque on covers; with five-pointed star gilt-stamped in outline on spine panels; with remains of four leather ties, red edges.
Provenance:
Louis Chaduc (1564-1638), signature in brown ink (title pages); Laville family, motto and signature "In manibus domini sortes meae. Laville" (title pages); Pellissier Defeligonde, signature (title pages) and armorial bookplate (front pastedowns). On the same provenances, see also PML 32387-91.
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