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LA JESSÉE (GESSÉE), Jean de (c.1550-1600). Les premieres oeuvres françoyses. Antwerp: Plantin, 1583 [December 1582].
4 parts in one volume bound in 2, 4° (202 x 154mm). Part-titles. Title within ornate architectural woodcut border with central Plantin device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved portrait. (Title just touched by the binder, r3-4 misbound after r5-6, some variable light spotting and staining, more heavily affecting a few quires at the beginning of book 1 and at the end of book 3. 19th-century polished calf by Roger de Coverly, covers panelled with gilt borders and central gilt losenge. marbled end-papers, gilt edges. Provenance: lengthy annotation in an early hand on blank verso of last leaf in second volume -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the works of La Jessée, poet, historian and French genealogist. According to ABPC/AE-online, NO COPIES CAN BE TRACED AS SELLING AT AUCTION. Brunet III, 775.
4 parts in one volume bound in 2, 4° (202 x 154mm). Part-titles. Title within ornate architectural woodcut border with central Plantin device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved portrait. (Title just touched by the binder, r3-4 misbound after r5-6, some variable light spotting and staining, more heavily affecting a few quires at the beginning of book 1 and at the end of book 3. 19th-century polished calf by Roger de Coverly, covers panelled with gilt borders and central gilt losenge. marbled end-papers, gilt edges. Provenance: lengthy annotation in an early hand on blank verso of last leaf in second volume -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the works of La Jessée, poet, historian and French genealogist. According to ABPC/AE-online, NO COPIES CAN BE TRACED AS SELLING AT AUCTION. Brunet III, 775.
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