Lot n° 149

LATTANZIO. Des divines Institutions, contre les Gentilz & idolatres. Parigi, Etienne Roffet, 1547.

Estimation : Start Price 1 200 €
Description
8vo, mm. 167x105; renaissance binding of Nordic area, full brown calf, sides with borders, fleuron in gold at the center and at the corners, ornaments at the back, edges; leaves 16, 235, 1. Note of possession of Martin du Rivage dated 1584 at the inside cover and Prince of Belgaum at the Title-page.

RARE EDITION. with the first French translation of the Divine Institutions.
The fundamental book of Lattanzio, written to direct the ducts to the true wisdom and simple to true religion, was translated by René Fame, secretary of King Francis I, at the request of the same monarch, whose work, exit from the presses of the Parisian bookseller Roffet , is dedicated. The charming ligation is probably the same Roffet that between 1539 and 1548 was the "Relieur du Roi". No copy surveyed in ICCU.

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