OVID, HEROIDES, VENICE, 1581, RED MOROCCO GILT WITH THE ARMS OF DE THOU

4to (207 x 145mm.), woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, with two final blank leaves, early seventeenth-century French red morocco gilt, central arms of de Thou and his second wife on covers [Olivier 216 fer 8], spine gilt with their monogram [fer 9] and fly stamp in compartments, gilt edges, de Thou's ink shelfmark at head of upper cover (slightly faded) and on inside front cover, extremities slightly rubbed

Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre, arms on binding; "Vente Giraud", inscription on flyleaf, presumably Charles Giraud (1802-1881), sales in 1855 and 1881; O'Sullivan de Grass de Séovaud (Brabant), armorial bookplate with motto Modestia victrix (perhaps Count Albert-Alphonse-Henri, born 1779, Belgian statesman); Lucius Wilmerding (1879-1949), bookplate, sale, Parke-Bernet, 6 March 1951, lot 492, $65; Giorgio di Veroli of New York, bookplate, sale, Parke-Bernet, 29 February 1956, lot 870 (extract from sale catalogue pasted to flyleaf), $35

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