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VALĖRE MAXIME.
[The Nine Books of Valerius the Great, translated from Latin into French by the Most Reverend Master Simon de Hesdin,... and completed by Nicolas de Gonesse,...].
(Lyon, Mathieu Huss, 1489).
Small folio, (312) ff. (out of 313), 55 lines in 2 columns, Gothic type. 19th-century navy blue morocco, spine with raised raised bands, gilded crowned monogram repeated on each panel and at the corners of both covers, double gilded fillet at the edges, interior lace, marbled paper endpapers, edges gilt on marbled paper [R. Petit]. (spine very slightly tarnished with minute scratches at the top, covers very slightly rubbed, foot cut slightly rubbed, small tear repaired at the top of the upper edge; title page missing, 1st and 4th leaves browned, sporadic marginal water stains slightly affecting the text on the last 10 leaves, not serious, small marginal stain on h4; stain not affecting readability on 8 leaves (c3 to d4)).
Signatures a2-a6 [a1 missing = title], b1-b5, [b6] blank, [a1 missing = blank], a2-8, b-r 8, s 10; [A1] blank, A2 [signed A], A3-A10, A-R 8, S7.
A copy from the library of Count Roger (Nord), bearing his crowned monogram stamped in the corners of the covers and repeated on the spine; lot no. 503 from his sale (Paris, 1884)
A rare French edition by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, dedicated to Charles V in 1375. The third French edition and the second to be illustrated (Huss produced the first engravings for the French text in his 1485 edition), featuring nine large woodcut illustrations in black, including two with four panels. The first leaf, bearing only the title ‘Valere le grant’ in small type, is missing (a common occurrence; the copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale is incomplete, lacking the title and three leaves, whilst the copy at the Library of Congress has the first two leaves as facsimiles…). A very fine copy, well-set and with generous margins (h 334 mm).
A few rare, neat old marginal annotations.
Other old annotations on f. C8v–D1r, including a probable ex-libris, and small additions to an engraving.
On the verso of the last leaf, faded handwritten signatures, probably “Lemoine de La Giraudais”, 18th century, and an older one, “P. Benoist”. “From Latin into French by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse. [At the end]: “And was printed in Lyon on the Rosne by Master Mathieu Husz, book printer, residing in the said city of Lyon. In the year one thousand four hundred and eighty-nine, on the eve of Saint John the Baptist”.
Sourget 17 1998 M13