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DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. Les Oeuvres Françoises. Paris: Fédéric Morel 1574. 8vo, 173 x 117 mm. (6 13/16 x 4 3/16 in.), contemporary French calf, covers with gilt fillet border and central gilt and gilt-hatched oval arabesque cartouche, spine in six compartmens with five raised bands, tooled in blind with gilt fleurons, caps and corners restored, slight rubbng to joints, minor stain to lower cover. Fifth edition, printer's woodcut device on title, woodcut headpieces and initials. Tchemerzine V, 75.
Provenance: Chardon, sixteenth-century ms. ex-libris on front flyleaf -- Two lines Italian verse in an eighteenth-century hand, same flyleaf -- Gustave Guoyot de Villeneuve (sale, Paris, 30 March 1901, lot 669), inscription giving sale information initialed HI or HJ -- Henry Houssaye, bookplate (sale, Paris, 1-4 May 1912).
Provenance: Chardon, sixteenth-century ms. ex-libris on front flyleaf -- Two lines Italian verse in an eighteenth-century hand, same flyleaf -- Gustave Guoyot de Villeneuve (sale, Paris, 30 March 1901, lot 669), inscription giving sale information initialed HI or HJ -- Henry Houssaye, bookplate (sale, Paris, 1-4 May 1912).