HÉRODOTE - DU RYER, Pierre - Lot 108

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HÉRODOTE - DU RYER, Pierre - Lot 108
HÉRODOTE - DU RYER, Pierre The Histories of Herodotus. Mises en françois, Par P. du-Ryer. Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, Augustin Courbé, 1645. 1 vol. in folio. Full contemporary brown calf, spine decorated, title gilt. [4] ff, 647 pp. numbered 637, [1] f, 22 pp. Title-frontispiece engraved in intaglio. Original edition of the translation-adaptation of Pierre du Ryer, divided into nine books. Missing leaves certainly blank at the end of some books, namely: leaf N1 (end of the first book), leaf Z1 (end of the second book), leaf HHh3 (end of the sixth book), leaf DDdd1 (end of the eighth book). No missing text. Some pagination errors. Handwritten bookplate on the flyleaf: Count Alphonse de la Guère. Lack of leather on the headpieces and spine, spines cracked, wear on the corners; some light marginal spotting.
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