Paris CORROZET (Gilles) - BONFONS (Nicolas) Les... - Lot 525 - Briscadieu

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Paris CORROZET (Gilles) - BONFONS (Nicolas) Les... - Lot 525 - Briscadieu
Paris CORROZET (Gilles) - BONFONS (Nicolas) Les Antiquitez croniques et singularitez de Paris, ville capitale du royaume de France, avec les fondations & batimens des lieux : les sépultures & épitaphes des Princes, Princesses, & autres personnes illsutres. Paris, Bonfons, 1586. (Followed by) Les Antiquitez et singularitez de Paris. Paris, Bonfons, 1588. 2 books in one volume in-8 : 15f., 212pp. - 4f, 119f, 3f (illustrated with 54 plates out of text by the painter Jean Rabel representing royal and princely tombs. Eighteenth century brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, leather missing at the head and foot of the box, spines cracked, gilt roulette on the edges, corners dulled, red edges. Collective edition gathering for the first time the writings of Corrozet and Bonfons. First illustrated edition. "The most sought-after edition of this book" (Morgand), largely original. Indeed, it includes the first edition of the second part; Harvard, French, I, 156." Sought-after edition for the second part, namely the Sepulchres (Brunet II, 307).
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