[DANSE MACABRE] La grand' danse macabre,... - Lot 27 - Giquello

[DANSE MACABRE] La grand' danse macabre, des hommes & des femmes Nouvellement revuë & augmentée d'histoires & beaux ditz, tant en Latin qu'en Françoys : & autres œuvres donc le connu est en la page suyvante Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1550 COPY OF THE DUC DE LA VALLIÈRE. RESURGENCE OF GOTHICS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 16th CENTURY Small in-8 (112 x 64 mm). Typographical mark on the title page COLLATION : A-N8 (K8 badly signed I1) : (104) ff. CONTENTS : A1r : title, A1v : table, A2r : text ILLUSTRATION : 250 woodcut vignettes, some of them repeated Eighteenth century binding. Red morocco, gilt decoration, triple fillet in frame, long spine decorated with vertical titling, gilt edges PROVENANCE: Louis-César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780; his sale, Paris, 1783, II, n° 2806, 4 livres 1 sol) -- André Jammes (note in pencil) RARITY: on the market: no copy listed since 1977 (RBH and Gazette de Drouot), no copy on viaLibri -- in the library: USTC lists only the BnF copy (RES P-YE-1934), no copy in the United States according to viaLibri Small stain at B3, tear without missing at B7, small worm gallery affecting some leaves. Small crack at the lower hinge CONDITION: CORRECTION: FROM LEAVES E1 to H2 THE Worm GALLERY WIDENS AND TOUCHES LETTERS OVER 1 CM BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 60290 -- Brunet, II, col. 495 -- not in Bechtel -- ARLIMA EA3080 -- G. Peignot, Recherches historiques et littéraires sur les Danses des morts, Dijon-Paris, 1826, p. 123 : cited copy WEBOGRAPHY : Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA), n° 29 : https://www.arlima.net/ad/danse_macabre.html