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| Author: |
Baïf, Lazare de and Antonius Thylesius |
| Title: |
annotationes in L. II. De captivis, & postliminio reversis: in quibus tractatur de re navali. Eiusdem annotationes in tractatum de auro & argentol leg. quibus vestimentorum & vasculorum genera explicantur. Omia ab ipso authore recognita & aucta. Antonii Thylesii de coloribus libellus, à coloribus vestium non alienus, [with] De re vestiaria |
| Place: |
Paris |
| Publisher: |
Robertus Stephanus [Estienne] |
| Date: |
1549 |
| Item # : |
206205 |
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| Sale Number |
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429 |
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17 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions) |
| Sale Date |
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05/27/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1020 |
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| Description: |
| Two volumes in one. 152, [8], 176, [11] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. (4to) 22.2x16 cm. (8¾x6¼"), period thin vellum, ink spine title. |
| Robert Estienne's first illustrated book, first published in 1536, a Renaissance history of early Rome with regards to Naval, arts, science, and culture. Lazare de Baif was born into the old nobility of Anjou, and in his youth he studied chiefly Greek and Latin. The king Francois I sent him to Venice as his emissary in 1531, there Baif composed a number of treatises about the navigation, clothing, and vessels of antiquity, especially those of the Romans. Adams B35 (50282) |
| Condition: |
| Vellum with soiling and discoloration, a bit of loss at the head of the spine; modern bookplate on front pastedown, old ink name at top of title crossed out, overall very good. |
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