Ovidius Naso. Les XXI Epistres Dovide translatée de latin en francoys par ... Monseigneur Levesque Dangoulême [Octavian de Saint-Gelais], Paris, boutique de Galliot du Pré, 1528, 12mo, Roman type, woodcut title vignette and 22 woodcut illustrations, some repeated (some light browning of early leaves, severe dampstaining to lower margins of second part of text), 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Henry Schroder Robinson [Brunet IV, 290; Schweiger II, 675; not in Mortimer or Murray] | Christie's

Lot 209

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Ovidius Naso. Les XXI Epistres Dovide translatée de latin en francoys par ... Monseigneur Levesque Dangoulême [Octavian de Saint-Gelais], Paris, boutique de Galliot du Pré, 1528, 12mo, Roman type, woodcut title vignette and 22 woodcut illustrations, some repeated (some light browning of early leaves, severe dampstaining to lower margins of second part of text), 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Henry Schroder Robinson [Brunet IV, 290; Schweiger II, 675; not in Mortimer or Murray]

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Ovidius Naso. Les XXI Epistres Dovide translatée de latin en francoys par ... Monseigneur Levesque Dangoulême [Octavian de Saint-Gelais], Paris, boutique de Galliot du Pré, 1528, 12mo, Roman type, woodcut title vignette and 22 woodcut illustrations, some repeated (some light browning of early leaves, severe dampstaining to lower margins of second part of text), 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Henry Schroder Robinson [Brunet IV, 290; Schweiger II, 675; not in Mortimer or Murray]

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This translation by Octavian de St.-Gelais was completed in 1497 with a dedication to Charles VIII, and first printed by Verard in 1500.

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