BONAVENTURE (Saint). *Legenda maior*. Paris, Claude Chevallo - Lot 36

BONAVENTURE (Saint). *Legenda maior*. Paris, Claude Chevallon, n.d. [after 1508]. Gothic 8vo, brown morocco, gold fillet with small ironwork, decorated spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Binding ca. 1880). An extremely rare Gothic edition, printed by Jean Barbier, of this biography of Saint Francis of Assisi. (Renouard, Parisian Printers & Booksellers of the 16th Century, vol. III, no. 245; only one copy in the CCFr, at the BnF.) Leaves m2, m5 (watermark), and m6 (blank) are missing, as in the copy at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, according to Renouard. Title page slightly soiled; slight water stain on the lower corner of the first 20 leaves.

Stima:€800

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