Ovidius Naso. Fastorum Libri VI. Tristium Libri V. De Ponto Libri IIII, Lyon, apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554, 8vo, printed in italic, pages ruled in red, woodcut publisher's device on title, several woodcut initials (occasional slight staining, small slit in final leaf), contemporary vellum with the arms and monogram of Denis de Sallo stamped in gilt on covers, flat gilt spine, Recamier bookplate. [Baudrier VIII, 271; Schweiger II, 657; BMC of French Books 332; not in Mortimer or Murray]

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Ovidius Naso. Fastorum Libri VI. Tristium Libri V. De Ponto Libri IIII, Lyon, apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554, 8vo, printed in italic, pages ruled in red, woodcut publisher's device on title, several woodcut initials (occasional slight staining, small slit in final leaf), contemporary vellum with the arms and monogram of Denis de Sallo stamped in gilt on covers, flat gilt spine, Recamier bookplate. [Baudrier VIII, 271; Schweiger II, 657; BMC of French Books 332; not in Mortimer or Murray]

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Denis de Sallo, Sieur de la Coudraye (d. 1669), councellor of the Parliament of Paris, who gained fame as the founder of the noted Journal des Savants under the pseudonym of Hedouville, left several manuscripts and collected a library of about 4,000 volumes which were stamped on the covers with the letters DDS intwined in different forms (Guignard Armorial II, 427ff. reproduces several examples).

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