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CAVICEO, Jacomo. Dialogue treselegant intitule le Peregrin, traictant de lhonneste et pudicq amour concilie par pure et sincere vertu. Paris: Jehan Petit, 1540. 8° (147 x 98mm). Title in red and black, 3 woodcut illustrations, small initials. (A few headlines shaved, lacking final leaf.) 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco gilt by C. Smith with his ticket, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, top edge slightly soiled). Provenance: Camille Aboussouan (bookplates; in his sale, Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1993, lot 194).
Caviceo's romance was first printed at Parma in 1508, and the very popular French translation by François Dassi first appeared at Paris in 1527. The Pilgrim's wanderings, undertaken for the sake of the beautiful Genèvre, take him to Mount Sinai and Cyprus. Like the Fairfax Murray copy, this copy lacks the final leaf, 'probably blank'. Davis, Murray French, 80 (variant imprint); cf. Brunet I, 1701.
Caviceo's romance was first printed at Parma in 1508, and the very popular French translation by François Dassi first appeared at Paris in 1527. The Pilgrim's wanderings, undertaken for the sake of the beautiful Genèvre, take him to Mount Sinai and Cyprus. Like the Fairfax Murray copy, this copy lacks the final leaf, 'probably blank'. Davis, Murray French, 80 (variant imprint); cf. Brunet I, 1701.