GOTHICS] - BOCCACE, Jean - Le plaisant livre de noble homme - Lot 158

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GOTHICS] - BOCCACE, Jean - Le plaisant livre de noble homme - Lot 158
GOTHICS] - BOCCACE, Jean - Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace, poète florentin, auquel il traicte des faicts et gestes des illustres et cleres dames. Translated from Latin into French. Printed newly in Paris, the fourth day of March Lan mil five cens trente et huyt. Paris, (Pierre Sergent), 4 March 1538 (1539, n. st.). Pet. in-8, (8), 196 ff. gothic type, title printed in red and black, vignette (f. 9), scribble in margin of one leaf, paper yellowed, lacking boards and much of spine, tr. gilt. BECHTEL B-224. MOREAU V, 742. printed in bastard gothic letters with the material of Jean Réal, one of the partners of this shared edition. Woodcut of Boccaccio offering his book. Second edition of the French translation reproducing that of Antoine Vérard (1493). The prologue has been preserved, where he declares to be the author, whereas he is in fact only the compiler of anonymous translations. (V. Renouard I, n°112).
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