Sallust, Opera Sallustiana, Lyon, 1517, French blind-stamped calf by Chevallon

Folio (250 x 175mm). Black letter, 70 lines plus headline. collation: a⁶ a-r⁸ s⁴: 146 leaves. Title printed in red and black within inhabited woodcut border, woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut initials, printer’s device of Simon Vincent at end.

binding: French calf over flexible pasteboards (255 x 182 mm), border roll of lozenges containing roses and the rebus of "CLAUDE [image of Cheval] LON", from the shop of Claude Chevallon, stubs from two pairs of ties, plain edges. (Binding somewhat rubbed, ends of spine chipped and cracked, some repairs to extremities.)

provenance: Claude Chevallon, bookseller's name on binding — Nicolas de La Fosse, of the convent of Beata Maria de Victoria, early inscription on flyleaf — In Bibliothecae Victorianae, seventeenth-century inscription at head of title (this phrase was also used by the library of Saint-Victoire in Paris) — Martin le Caron, of the convent of Beata Maria de Victoria, eighteenth-century inscription on flyleaf — Joseph-François-René-Marie-Pierre de Kergariou (1779-1849), inkstamp at foot of title — Ed. Girard & Henri Leclerc with Librairie Giraud-Badin, Catalogue de livres anciens la plupart relatifs à la Bretagne ou d’auteurs bretons provenant de la bibliothèque du château de La Grand’ville, Paris, 16 January 1923 — Hector Marie Auguste de Backer (1843-1925), sale, Fernand Lair-Dubreuil & Librairie Giraud-Badin, Bibliothèque de feu M. Hector de Backer. Deuxième partie, Paris, 28-31 March 1927, lot 3053 — E.K. Schreiber, Catalogue Twenty-five (New York [1991]), item 82. acquisition: Purchased in 1991 from E.K. Schreiber, New York. references: USTC 155332; von Gültlingen III: Jouvelle 9