HERODOTE. Les neuf livres des Histoires de Hérodote, prince - Lot 30

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HERODOTE. Les neuf livres des Histoires de Hérodote, prince - Lot 30
HERODOTE. Les neuf livres des Histoires de Hérodote, prince et premier des historiographes grecz, intitulez du nom des muses... Plus un recueil de George Gemiste dict Plethon, des choses avenues depuis la journée de Mantinée... Paris, Étienne Groulleau, 1556. In-4, 21.5 x 33 cm, 4 ff, 143 ff, 1 blank (a-z6, A-R6, S4), contemporary gilt ivory vellum flap binding, double gilt fillet border on boards, gilt oval cartouche with gilt numeral in center of boards, spine decorated with gilt faux-nerves and repeated gilt numeral, gilt edges. First French translation of the Histories of Herodotus and the History of Greece after the Battle of Mantinea, by the philosopher and scholar Georges Gémiste Pléthon (1355-1452). Both translations are the work of humanist Pierre Saliat (d. 1556), professor at the Collège de Navarre in Paris and secretary to Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Châtillon. Fine typography by Paris printer Étienne Groulleau, with his mark on the title. Large historiated woodcut initials at the head of the nine books of Herodotus. A fine copy in gilt vellum with the numeral AI or IA, gilt in the center and on the spine of the binding. Ink stain in margin of ff. 64 and 65 and old annotations in margin of ff. 98 and 110. Slight foxing. Faint old wetness at the bottom of the first and last leaves. Minor worm damage and spots on boards. Brunet III, 126 - Adams, H-410 - Cioranescu 20302. Expert : Cédric et Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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