PROPERTY OF THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HENRI BURTON
Lots 75-178 are selections from the books bequeathed by M. Henri Burton, deceased in 1971, to his three granddaughters. Each volume bears M. Burton's green or red morocco bookplate.
[ACHILLES TATIUS.] Les devis amoureux, traduictz nagueres de Grec en Latin, & depuis de Latin en Francois, par l'Amoureux de Vertu [Claude Colet]. Paris: Gilles Corrozet 1545. Small 8vo, 144 x 91 mm. (5 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.), red morocco, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges marbled and gilt, by BAUZONNET-TRAUTZ, head of spine and corners slightly scuffed, washed and pressed. Collation: A-I8. 72 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes in italic, criblé and white floriated initials. First edition in French of the romance of Leucippe and Clitophon. RARE (not in BM/STC French, Adams, Rothschild, BN Catalogue des Imprimés or NUC). Brunet I, 37.
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[ACHILLES TATIUS.] Les devis amoureux, traduictz nagueres de Grec en Latin, & depuis de Latin en Francois, par l'Amoureux de Vertu [Claude Colet]. Paris: Gilles Corrozet 1545. Small 8vo, 144 x 91 mm. (5 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.), red morocco, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges marbled and gilt, by BAUZONNET-TRAUTZ, head of spine and corners slightly scuffed, washed and pressed. Collation: A-I8. 72 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes in italic, criblé and white floriated initials. First edition in French of the romance of Leucippe and Clitophon. RARE (not in BM/STC French, Adams, Rothschild, BN Catalogue des Imprimés or NUC). Brunet I, 37.
Provenance: Nineteenth-century annotations on title (washed) -- Gustave Chartener, bookplate (sale, 4-9 May 1885).
Provenance: Nineteenth-century annotations on title (washed) -- Gustave Chartener, bookplate (sale, 4-9 May 1885).