Gaguin (Robert): [Compendium] Super Francorum Gestis, [colophon: Paris, Bertholdus Rebolt (for) Jean Petit, 1511], 8vo, Roman type, woodcut title showing Charlemagne with St. Dagobert and St. Denis, woodcut initials and device of Jean Petit on colophon (title cut down and tipped onto blank leaf, index leaves misbound at end, Y7-Z4 with tears from lower margin into text rather crudely repaired, some heavy dampstains), recent vellum. [Van der Haeghen III, 23; Erasmus Letter 45]

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Gaguin (Robert): [Compendium] Super Francorum Gestis, [colophon: Paris, Bertholdus Rebolt (for) Jean Petit, 1511], 8vo, Roman type, woodcut title showing Charlemagne with St. Dagobert and St. Denis, woodcut initials and device of Jean Petit on colophon (title cut down and tipped onto blank leaf, index leaves misbound at end, Y7-Z4 with tears from lower margin into text rather crudely repaired, some heavy dampstains), recent vellum. [Van der Haeghen III, 23; Erasmus Letter 45]

Lot Essay

First published in 1495, Gaguin's book is the first humanist historiography of France, also famous because it contains (on leaves 307-309), the first printed work of Erasmus, his commendatory letter for Gaguin.

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