Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Leather
Description: SATYRE MENIPPEE DE LA TENUE DES ESTATS DE PARIS ET DE LA VERTU DU CATHOLICON D'ESPAGNE. NEWLY AUGMENTED EDITION AT THE END OF HISTORICAL RECORDS [SIC] & OBSERVATIONS, DISCOVERING MORE AND MORE SECRETS OF THE LIGUE. Composed by Jean Passerat, Jacques Gillot, Pierre Pithou, Florent Chrestien, Pierre Leroy, and Nicolas Rapin. Rarely available enhanced version of the political and humorous piece on the conflicts after Henry's conversion to Catholicism. Published in 1595. Measurements: 1/196-[2 bl.]-197/244 [= 254] pp. Later on, an elaborate spine with raised bands, red-sprayed edges, and fillets and a frame in the Renaissance style were featured in the blind-tooled leather binding [by De Samblanx]. The title page's bottom corner has been fixed. The spine's upper edge is fixed. A. Berthel, bookstore (label), Prov. Gaëtan Quercus (hand-colored and gold-heightened mod. armorial bookplate). 244 pages French text.
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