![AUGUSTINE, Aurelius (354-430). Liber de gestis Pelagii. Augsburg: ad insigne pinus, 1611. With the errata leaf. Woodcut title device. [Bound with:] VINCENT, Saint. Opuscula. Valencia: Petrus Patricius, 1591. Small woodcut on title and last page. (Tear in H4 with no loss, a little browning.) Palau 293709. [And:] ISIDORUS, Saint. Brevi encomio. Antwerp: G. à Tongrie, 1623. 3 works in one volume, 8º (149 x 93mm). Contemporary light brown calf, the sides with the gilt arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde la Chastre, spine gilt in compartments with their monogram [Olivier 216, fers 5 & 9], red edges (upper joint somewhat worn). Provenance: Francois-Auguste de Thou (binding) -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683; 'Bibliothecae Colbertinae' inscription on title of first work, probably in the hand of Etienne Baluze) -- P.P.C. Lammens (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10266_0020_000(augustine_aurelius_liber_de_gestis_pelagii_augsburg_ad_insigne_pinus_1090918).jpg?w=1)
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AUGUSTINE, Aurelius (354-430). Liber de gestis Pelagii. Augsburg: ad insigne pinus, 1611. With the errata leaf. Woodcut title device. [Bound with:] VINCENT, Saint. Opuscula. Valencia: Petrus Patricius, 1591. Small woodcut on title and last page. (Tear in H4 with no loss, a little browning.) Palau 293709. [And:] ISIDORUS, Saint. Brevi encomio. Antwerp: G. à Tongrie, 1623. 3 works in one volume, 8º (149 x 93mm). Contemporary light brown calf, the sides with the gilt arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde la Chastre, spine gilt in compartments with their monogram [Olivier 216, fers 5 & 9], red edges (upper joint somewhat worn). Provenance: Francois-Auguste de Thou (binding) -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683; 'Bibliothecae Colbertinae' inscription on title of first work, probably in the hand of Etienne Baluze) -- P.P.C. Lammens (bookplate).
THE DE THOU - COLBERT COPY. Jacques-Auguste De Thou died in 1617, some six years before the publication of the third work in this volume. Francois-Auguste, his son, inherited the library, which he conserved carefully, often using his father's arms on his own acquisitions.
THE DE THOU - COLBERT COPY. Jacques-Auguste De Thou died in 1617, some six years before the publication of the third work in this volume. Francois-Auguste, his son, inherited the library, which he conserved carefully, often using his father's arms on his own acquisitions.
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