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VALLET, Pierre, illustrator (ca 1575-1657). -- HELIODORUS OF EMESA. Les Adventures Amoureuse de Theagenes et Cariclée. Sommairement descrite et representée par figures. Paris: Pierre Vallet and Gabriel Tavernier, 1613.
8o (193 x 123 mm.). Engraved title and 120 numbered half-page engraved illustrations, printed on rectos only. 18th-century French red morocco gilt, edges gilt (minor dampstaining to lower margin heavier at end). Provenance: Borluut de Noortdonck (bookplate); acquired from Ursus Books, 1983.
FIRST EDITION. With a suite of 120 engraved plates (7 repeats) each accompanied by a verse from Helidorus of Emesa's Historia Aethiopica. Brunet III:89 (citing this copy); Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 22.
8o (193 x 123 mm.). Engraved title and 120 numbered half-page engraved illustrations, printed on rectos only. 18th-century French red morocco gilt, edges gilt (minor dampstaining to lower margin heavier at end). Provenance: Borluut de Noortdonck (bookplate); acquired from Ursus Books, 1983.
FIRST EDITION. With a suite of 120 engraved plates (7 repeats) each accompanied by a verse from Helidorus of Emesa's Historia Aethiopica. Brunet III:89 (citing this copy); Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 22.