“Noctes Mormantinæ, sive Ioannis Bachotii Senon…

Description

Very good, light wear to covers, minimal worming to lower spine and the margins of a few sheets, scattered marginalia. Contemporary mottled leather, leather, raised bands, spine in six compartments with gilt decorations, red leather spine label, gilt coat of arms of Louis Urbain Lefebvre de Caumartin on both covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 4to., 22×15.5 cm. Latin text, “Quatrains” in French with commentary in Latin. “Bibliotheca Heberiana” stamp of Richard Heber on the second endpaper. Heber was one of the great bibliophiles of history reported to have owned over 200,000 books. Scarce title in an attractive armorial binding. weight: 2.6 lb. Dionysium Thierry. Parisiis. 1651. [16], 767, 143 pp.