Premier Volume de la Bibliotheque du Sieur de la Croix-du Maine. Qui est un Catalogue...
Fine woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut port. on verso of the dedicatee, Henri III, & several woodcut illus. in the text. 22 p.l., 558, [5] pp. Folio, fine 18th-cent. marbled calf (joints & ends of spine very carefully repaired), arms in gilt on both covers of the great bibliophile. the duc d’Aumont, triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine, a.e.g. Paris: A. l’Angelier, 1584.
First edition, a fine copy from the library of the great bibliophile, the duc d’Aumont (1709-82), one of the outstanding book and art collectors of his age, with... More