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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Les epistres familiaires, translated from the Latin by Etienne Dolet. Paris: Jean Real for Jean Longis, 27 October, 1542. 8° (167 x 101mm). Title within woodcut border. (Some spotting, without the final blank.) Light blue morocco by Koehler, spine gilt in compartments, sides panelled with gilt fillets and centred with gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins and edges (lightly faded). Provenance: Charles Nodier (1780-1844, author; cataloguer's inscription, note laid in) -- Ambrose Firmin Didot (book label) -- Edouard Moura (book labels) -- purchased from H. Lardanchet, 1925.
CHARLES NODIER'S COPY of Dolet's popular translation of Cicero into French. This Paris edition appeared in the same year as the Lyon first edition. Dolet possibly relocated to Paris to escape his enemies, who nonetheless succeeded that year in imprisoning him for atheism. Brunet II, 58; Fairfax Murray 637.
CHARLES NODIER'S COPY of Dolet's popular translation of Cicero into French. This Paris edition appeared in the same year as the Lyon first edition. Dolet possibly relocated to Paris to escape his enemies, who nonetheless succeeded that year in imprisoning him for atheism. Brunet II, 58; Fairfax Murray 637.