Grégoire DE NAZIANZE (Jean Baptiste COLBERT)
Selectarum epistolarum libri quatuor Graecolatini[Four Books of Selected Letters, Greek and Latin]
Adam Sartorius|Ingolstadt 1599|10.9 x 16.2 cm|Relié
Second edition, published the year after the first. Text in Greek and Latin.
Illustrated with the printer's device on the title page, headpieces, initials, and tailpieces.
Superb contemporary red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands bearing Colbert's crowned cipher, centre of both covers stamped with his arms, boards framed three times in gilt, gilt roll-tooling on the board edges, all edges speckled, spine very lightly sunned, discreet rubbing to the corners, board edges and spine-ends on one abrasion to the lower cover and a faint dark mark on one compartment of the spine.
A sumptuous copy bound in morocco stamped with the arms and cipher of...
€10,000