LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY

Paris: Chez Anthoine de Sommaville, 1648. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Francois de Malherbe’s translation into French of the Letters of Seneca. First published in 1637, this being an enlarged reprint. Portrait frontispiece; printer’s device on the title page; engraved initials and headpieces. Faint dampstaining to a section of the fore edge of the text block. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper. Collates complete; [22], 670 pp. Full vellum, with titling lettered in ink. Very Good binding.