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EGNATIUS, Johannes Baptista (pseudonym of Giovanni Battista CIPELLI). Summaire de chroniques, Contenans les Vies, Gestes & Cas Fortuitz, de tous les Empereurs Deurope, Depuis Jules Cesar, Iusques a Maximilian dernier decade. Translated from Latin into French by Geoffroy TORY. Paris: for Geoffroy Tory, 13th April 1529.
Median 8° (167 x 103mm). Collation: a-b8 (title, privilege, translator's preface, index, chronological table of emperors, b8 blank); A-O8 (text, O8v colophon and publisher's woodcut "pot cassé" device). 128 leaves. Roman type (Champ fleury fount), triple-line frame around every page. Contemporary French deerskin over pasteboard (slightly loose and rubbed). Provenance: Jehane Lebrun (inscription); Jehan Guyet (inscription); G. Belot, received from Guyet (inscription dated 1533); Guibert Bodinet (1544 inscription); Pierre Hobier at Paris (1620 inscription); George Abrams (bookplate, sale Sotheby's, 16-17 November 1989, lot 152).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION, published a fortnight before Tory's celebrated Champ fleury. In his preface the early champion of the use of the French language discusses the theory of translation. RARE. In original condition. Bernard 130; Mortimer, Harvard French 195.
Median 8° (167 x 103mm). Collation: a-b8 (title, privilege, translator's preface, index, chronological table of emperors, b8 blank); A-O8 (text, O8v colophon and publisher's woodcut "pot cassé" device). 128 leaves. Roman type (Champ fleury fount), triple-line frame around every page. Contemporary French deerskin over pasteboard (slightly loose and rubbed). Provenance: Jehane Lebrun (inscription); Jehan Guyet (inscription); G. Belot, received from Guyet (inscription dated 1533); Guibert Bodinet (1544 inscription); Pierre Hobier at Paris (1620 inscription); George Abrams (bookplate, sale Sotheby's, 16-17 November 1989, lot 152).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION, published a fortnight before Tory's celebrated Champ fleury. In his preface the early champion of the use of the French language discusses the theory of translation. RARE. In original condition. Bernard 130; Mortimer, Harvard French 195.