Stephanus [Estienne] (Henricus): De Latinate Falso Suspecta, [Geneva], excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1576, 8vo, first edition, woodcut publisher's device on title, recent vellum with yapp fore- edges [Adams S1763; Renouard 144, 3; Schreiber 198] -- Savonarola [(Girolamo)]: Compendium Totius Philosophiae tam Naturalis quam Moralis, Venice, [colophon: in officina Aurelii Pincii, 1534], four parts in one vol., 8vo, first edition, Roman type, woodcut initials (a3 of first part with paper fault on recto, [?] lacking final leaf), old half calf (spine worn); and 4 others, 16th century, 8vo. (6)

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Stephanus [Estienne] (Henricus): De Latinate Falso Suspecta, [Geneva], excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1576, 8vo, first edition, woodcut publisher's device on title, recent vellum with yapp fore- edges [Adams S1763; Renouard 144, 3; Schreiber 198] -- Savonarola [(Girolamo)]: Compendium Totius Philosophiae tam Naturalis quam Moralis, Venice, [colophon: in officina Aurelii Pincii, 1534], four parts in one vol., 8vo, first edition, Roman type, woodcut initials (a3 of first part with paper fault on recto, [?] lacking final leaf), old half calf (spine worn); and 4 others, 16th century, 8vo. (6)

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Henri Estienne's work is the first of a triology attacking the cult of Ciceronianism, 'the fanatic adherence in writing and speaking Latin to the vocabulary and idiom of Cicero.'

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