BOSQUET, Jean Fleurs morales et sentences perceptives... Lot 6

BOSQUET, Jean Fleurs morales et sentences perceptives [...]. Reveües, corrigées, et augmentées, par l'autheur [...]. Ensemble, un discours de son invention, en forme d'ode, non moins consolatif, que sententieux: à l'honneur de pauvreté honneste, et loüable. Propres aux affligez de ce temps. Mons Ch. Michel 1587 8vo: 166 (of 168) ff. (lacking one f. of table -restored by hand- and one blank; occ. ff. sl. soiled, title underlaid restoring sm. tears, inner margin of title strengthened). 19th-c. three-quarter brown shagreen, marbled paper covers, gilt orn. spine on raised bands (very sl. rubbed). Second edition of this collection containing sayings of Greek and Latin authors, Isocrates' sentences and precepts, epigrams, etc. gathered and translated by the Belgian grammarian and teacher from Mons, Bosquet. The first edition was published in 1581 by R. Velpius, also in Mons. Ref. Rousselle 41. - BT 5800. - Cp. BB I:322 (1st ed.) & Machiels B-890 (id.). - Not in Adams. Prov. Henri Joseph Francotte (bookpl.).