CLAUDIANUS. Opera, 1548, contemporary calf gilt, monogram and device of JACQUES AMYOT gilt at center of covers and in spine compartments, rebacked, original backstrip laid down, corners restored, some minor marginal dampstaining , Adams C2075, long note in a contemporary hand on front fyleaf, later sixteenth- or seventeenth-century ownership inscription on title, "ex biblioteca fuliensi P. Bernardi fontanensis" -- CICERO. Rhetoricum...eiusdem De Inventione, 1560, contemporary stiff vellum, probably a Lyonese binding, covers with gilt center and cornerpiece arabesque design, on a semis of triple dots, flat spine with gilt-hatched interlacing arabesques, edges gilt and gauffred to a leafy tendril design, pink decorative endpapers, covers bowed, slightly rubbed, upper margin of title cut away , bookplate of René Choppin, 19th or 20th century note in English on front flyleaf -- PETRUS CRINITUS. De Honesta disciplina, 1585, contemporary stiff vellum gilt, covers divided into geometrical compartments by triple gilt fillets, central compartment with a monogram formed by the letters HLMPS within gilt-tooled wreath, the monogram repeated at corners with gilt leafy branches and flower tools, flat spine semé with gilt flames, gilt-lettered lengthwise, later endbands, endpapers renewed, lacking last 5 leaves (Hh6-Ii2) , Adams C2956 -- DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Familarum Colloquiorum opus, 1539, 8vo, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt, corner and upper cap restored, joints worn, gutters of first and last leaves renewed, a few other minor repairs, contemporary inscription on title, extensive marginalia in a contemporary hand, Fr. Hofmannus, inscription on title dated 1610; all Lyons: Sebastian Gryphius (or Gryphius heirs), the first three 12mo , italic type, printer's device on titles and on verso of last leaf of 4th vol., woodcut initials, the first three from the library of Mme. Théophile B/aelin (sale, Paris, part 1, 19-20 February 1936, lots 44, 42 and 49 -- PETRONIUS. Satyricon, Amsterdam 1677, 2 vols., 24mo, eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt arms of LAMBERT DE THORIGNY on sides , 2 engraved frontispieces, bookplates of Mortimer Schiff and Édouard Rahir -- THOMAS A KEMPIS. De imitatione Christi, Cologne 1684, 32mo, contemporary red morocco gilt; together 6 works in 7 vols., g.e. , the first, third and fifth works RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT. (7)
CLAUDIANUS. Opera, 1548, contemporary calf gilt, monogram and device of JACQUES AMYOT gilt at center of covers and in spine compartments, rebacked, original backstrip laid down, corners restored, some minor marginal dampstaining , Adams C2075, long note in a contemporary hand on front fyleaf, later sixteenth- or seventeenth-century ownership inscription on title, "ex biblioteca fuliensi P. Bernardi fontanensis" -- CICERO. Rhetoricum...eiusdem De Inventione, 1560, contemporary stiff vellum, probably a Lyonese binding, covers with gilt center and cornerpiece arabesque design, on a semis of triple dots, flat spine with gilt-hatched interlacing arabesques, edges gilt and gauffred to a leafy tendril design, pink decorative endpapers, covers bowed, slightly rubbed, upper margin of title cut away , bookplate of René Choppin, 19th or 20th century note in English on front flyleaf -- PETRUS CRINITUS. De Honesta disciplina, 1585, contemporary stiff vellum gilt, covers divided into geometrical compartments by triple gilt fillets, central compartment with a monogram formed by the letters HLMPS within gilt-tooled wreath, the monogram repeated at corners with gilt leafy branches and flower tools, flat spine semé with gilt flames, gilt-lettered lengthwise, later endbands, endpapers renewed, lacking last 5 leaves (Hh6-Ii2) , Adams C2956 -- DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Familarum Colloquiorum opus, 1539, 8vo, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt, corner and upper cap restored, joints worn, gutters of first and last leaves renewed, a few other minor repairs, contemporary inscription on title, extensive marginalia in a contemporary hand, Fr. Hofmannus, inscription on title dated 1610; all Lyons: Sebastian Gryphius (or Gryphius heirs), the first three 12mo , italic type, printer's device on titles and on verso of last leaf of 4th vol., woodcut initials, the first three from the library of Mme. Théophile B/aelin (sale, Paris, part 1, 19-20 February 1936, lots 44, 42 and 49 -- PETRONIUS. Satyricon, Amsterdam 1677, 2 vols., 24mo, eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt arms of LAMBERT DE THORIGNY on sides , 2 engraved frontispieces, bookplates of Mortimer Schiff and Édouard Rahir -- THOMAS A KEMPIS. De imitatione Christi, Cologne 1684, 32mo, contemporary red morocco gilt; together 6 works in 7 vols., g.e. , the first, third and fifth works RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT. (7)
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