Lot 158
Campani, Fabrice
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
La vie civile .... Paris: François Huby, 1608. First edition thus, 8vo., woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials &ornaments, contemporary limp vellum, ties removed, a very few insignificant marginal stains, early Ms. annotations on 1 leaf, occasional light paper discolouration
Footnote
Note: Not in BM. STC. 17th century French Books or in NUC, etc.
First French edition of a treatise on the civic and natural virtues and some of the topics considered suitable for conversation in polite society. The text, of prodigious length, is in the form of a dialogue, and the Italian original belongs to a branch of literature stemming from Castiglione's The Courtier..