Accession number:
PML 77253
Published:
A Paris : Chez Charles Perier ..., 1564.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1981.
Description:
[6], 233, [3] leaves (the last two leaves blank), [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., geneal. tables ; 26 cm (4to)
Notes:
Dedicatory letter to Catherine de Médici signed: Jean Nestor medecin.
First edition.
Leaf 226 misnumbered 221; errata: verso of leaf [234].
Signatures: *⁶ a-z⁴ A-2N⁴.
Binding:
Limp vellum, bound by Claude de Picques (?) for Alexandre, Duke of Orleans (the future Henri III), gold-tooled to a floral design incorporating hatched corner-pieces and blocks of Henri's arms and emblem.
Provenance:
Henri III (binding); Dubois (signature); Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice (stamp); Bernard Quartich, Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (1921), no. 107; Christie's NY, 20 Nov. 1981, lot 631; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, Nov. 1981.
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