1608 BIBLE COMMENTARY by Guillaume Perault ANTIQUE pigskin binding

(Summa) virtutum vitiorumque exempla, ex utriusque legis promptuario decerpta.

Editio ultima

 Lyon, Rouille; 1608

With woodcut printer's mark at the title page

560 pp.

Original bind-tooled pigskin binding, lacks ties

The "Editio ultima" of the major work of the medieval Dominican preacher Guillaume Perault (c. 1190-1271), first published in Venice in 1492

Title page features the classic Rouillé printer's mark in the center—an eagle perched upon a globe, flanked by two intertwined serpents (caduceus/mercurial motif) with the motto "In virtute et fortuna" (In virtue and fortune) split across the sides.

Somewhat browned

Size 3 by 5"

Text in Latin
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