Siena

Italian first edition in Nicolo Manerbio's translation of Jacques de Voragine's Lives of the Saints. Superbly illustrated with a baroque title-frontispiece bearing the central printer's device, 12 small vignettes for the calendar, and 233 vignettes illustrating the lives of the Saints. 5 copies in Italian catalogues, one at Oxford.
The second text is a rare Siena imprint on the life of San Galgan or Galgano (1148-1181), born at Chiusdino near Siena in Tuscany. Printed in italics. 1577 edition with a large title vignette. 2 copies in Italian catalogues, one at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and one at the British Library. Date of 3 December 1576 in the colophon.
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First bilingual edition and for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Back discolored two tears in the head and foot, marginal stings on the boards, the first board had to include a vignette that is missing here, small foxing in the slices of some slips.
Printed stamp indicating the address of the author in Brussels on the fake title page.
Signed autograph of Géo Libbrecht, in French, to the poet Marie-Louise Pérot.
We join a typewritten poem entitled "Young girl, young flower" with this autograph signed by Géo Libbrecht at the foot of the last stanza: "I dedicate this poem with my homage to Marie-Louise Pérot".