Histoire des hommes illustres de la maison de Medici : auec vn abbrege des comtes de Bolongne et d'Auuergne ...

Accession number: 
PML 77253
Author: 
Nestor, Jean.
Published: 
A Paris : Chez Charles Perier ..., 1564.
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; in PML case.
Provenance: 
Henri III (binding), Dubois (signature); Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice (stamp).
Classification: 
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