Bocace des nobles maleureux.
Bound in-folio half red morocco, boards with the ARMS of the Marquis de la Grange spine with 5 double-nerve, cold-framed boxes, gold lettering, date at foot, small wetness at tail of spine.
Printed in Paris by Nicolas Cousteau on December 30, 1538.
Printed in gothic letters, two columns of 52 lines. Letters. Title page rubricated in red, framed with woodcuts by Gilles de Gourmont, with his initials E.G. and his coat of arms. 7 woodcuts.
A wet stamp at the bottom of the page with the initials J.D.
Some traces of inks, last leaf lined, fresh interior overall.
De casibus virorum illustrium by Boccaccio translated by the humanist Laurent de Premierfait. Collection of biographies with a moral purpose: the tragic end and the reverses of fortune of famous men and women such as Philip the Fair, King Arthur, Dionysius of Syracuse, Mithridate etc...
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