TORQUEMADA (Antonio de). Hexameron, ov Six Iovrnees, contena - Lot 208

TORQUEMADA (Antonio de). Hexameron, ov Six Iovrnees, contenans plvsievrs doctes discourses sus aucuns poincts difficiles en diuerses sciences, auec maintes histoires notables & non encores ouyes [...]. Mis en François par Gabriel Chappuys. A Lyon, Par Antoine de Harsy, 1582. Small in-8°, lemon morocco, gilt laurel garland at center of boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges, turquoise morocco lining framed with gilt lace roulette (Trautz-Bauzonnet). [VIII] + 489 + [XXXI (last two blank)] pp. Second edition of this French translation by Gabriel Chappuys, after that of 1579, of this famous work dealing with witchcraft, magic, astrology... The Spanish original appeared in Salamanca in 1570 under the title Jardin de flores curiosas. Crab and moth mark with the motto "Matura" on the title (former mark of Jean Frellon, taken over by Antoine de Harsy). From the library of Baron de Ruble, with bookplate. A washed copy with a trace of a handwritten bookplate on the title, but a GOOD copy bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet for Baron Alphonse de Ruble. Brunet, V, 886; Caillet, III, 10761. See reproduction