[Vazquez] | L'histoire de Primaleon de Grèce, Lyon, 1572, 4 volumes, later green morocco gilt

[Francisco Vázquez]

L’histoire de Primaleon de Grèce [translated by François de Vernassal and Gabriel Chappuis]. Lyon: Benoit Rigaud (François Durelle), 1572; Pierre Rigaud, 1612-1624

3 volumes in 4 (volume one split into 2), 16mo (110 x 65mm.), woodcut device on title-pages, later French green morocco gilt, plausibly by Derome, flat spines gilt, gilt edges, cut close, extremities slightly rubbed, spines slightly faded

LITERATURE:

USTC 56407; Rép. bibl. XVIIe siècle, Lyon, Pierre I Rigaud, 231 & cf. 158 (the 1609 reprint of the third book)

PROVENANCE:

Giroud (?), sale, no. 1895; £11-10-0, price on flyleaf; John B. Stetson, sale, Parke-Bernet, 10 March 1953, lot 361, extract from sale catalogue loosely inserted