[ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556)]. Coloquio de las damas. [Seville: no printer], 1607. 16° (131 x 80mm). (Very slightly browned throughout, top margins cut quite close.) Green straight-grained morocco by Koehler, compartments of spine ruled in gilt, wide rococo border round sides enclosing later gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Charles Nodier's copy with his oval red morocco gilt bookplate -- anonymous armorial bookplate -- J.F.J. Charle de Tyberchamps (armorial bookplate at end) -- bought from Librería Roque Pidal, 1944. Third Spanish edition, translated by Fernan Suarez, forbidden by the Spanish Inquisition when first privately printed in 1548. Palau I, 16000, citing this copy.
[ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556)]. Coloquio de las damas. [Seville: no printer], 1607. 16° (131 x 80mm). (Very slightly browned throughout, top margins cut quite close.) Green straight-grained morocco by Koehler, compartments of spine ruled in gilt, wide rococo border round sides enclosing later gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Charles Nodier's copy with his oval red morocco gilt bookplate -- anonymous armorial bookplate -- J.F.J. Charle de Tyberchamps (armorial bookplate at end) -- bought from Librería Roque Pidal, 1944. Third Spanish edition, translated by Fernan Suarez, forbidden by the Spanish Inquisition when first privately printed in 1548. Palau I, 16000, citing this copy.

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[ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556)]. Coloquio de las damas. [Seville: no printer], 1607. 16° (131 x 80mm). (Very slightly browned throughout, top margins cut quite close.) Green straight-grained morocco by Koehler, compartments of spine ruled in gilt, wide rococo border round sides enclosing later gilt supralibros, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Charles Nodier's copy with his oval red morocco gilt bookplate -- anonymous armorial bookplate -- J.F.J. Charle de Tyberchamps (armorial bookplate at end) -- bought from Librería Roque Pidal, 1944. Third Spanish edition, translated by Fernan Suarez, forbidden by the Spanish Inquisition when first privately printed in 1548. Palau I, 16000, citing this copy.

[PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662)]. Les provinciales ou Lettres escrittes par Louis de Montalte. Cologne: Balthasar Winefelt, 1684. 8° (216 x 119mm). Polyglot text in French, Latin, Spanish and Italian. Engraved frontispiece portrait by and after St. Aubin in two states, title in red and black, 3 other engraved portraits. (One portrait browned, occasional spotting.) Richly gilt black morocco gilt by P. Bozerian, later supralibros on sides, white silk doublures, gilt edges (lightly rubbed and marked). Provenance: A.A. Renouard (ex libris) -- purchased from Librería Fontana, 1940. Brunet IV, 306.

With 2 other works: Jean Pierre Camus, Historia catalana trasportata dal francese dal G.F. Loredano. Venice: li Guerigli, 1656. 12°; and a disbound copy of Margaret of Navarre's Memorias (Madrid, 1646). (4)

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