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GIOVIO, Paolo (1482-1552) and Gabriel SIMEONI (1509-1575). Faictz sur les devises. Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1560.
Small 2° (246 x 184mm). Title within woodcut border, 100 plates. (Small marginal repairs.) Full dark blue morocco by Pagnant, sides gilt in period style with interlacing border, spine gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). RARE. WorldCat records just one copy, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Landwehr Romanic 338.
Together with three 16th-century emblem books published in France: Simeoni, Le imprese heroiche et morali (Lyons: 1559); Receuil des choses notables qui ont este´ faites a' Bayonne, a' l'entreveue¨ du roy treschrestien Charles neufieme (Paris: 1566); and Gueroult, Le premier livre des emblemes (Lyons: 1550), the Firmin Didot – Bertin copy.
Small 2° (246 x 184mm). Title within woodcut border, 100 plates. (Small marginal repairs.) Full dark blue morocco by Pagnant, sides gilt in period style with interlacing border, spine gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). RARE. WorldCat records just one copy, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Landwehr Romanic 338.
Together with three 16th-century emblem books published in France: Simeoni, Le imprese heroiche et morali (Lyons: 1559); Receuil des choses notables qui ont este´ faites a' Bayonne, a' l'entreveue¨ du roy treschrestien Charles neufieme (Paris: 1566); and Gueroult, Le premier livre des emblemes (Lyons: 1550), the Firmin Didot – Bertin copy.
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