£1,250
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Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
La Rochelle: Timothee Iouan, 1602. First edition, 4to, [xiv], folding table, 238, [20], with inscription at head of title "A de vantadour B.B. Arch. de Bourges", title withn typographic border, with letter to Lord Napier relating to the translation, tipped in at end, 19th century blindstamped calf, g.e., bookplate of Lord Napier; bookplate at end of Archbishop of Bourges
Note: Seeingly unrecorded. COPAC records 2 copies only of what appears to be a variant First edition, with the imprint "La Rochelle: Par Jean Brenouzet, demeurant pres la boucherie Neufue, 1602": Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds. The work is the French edition of A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John, 1593