Le Gallois, Traitte des plus belles bibliotheques de l'Europe, Paris, 1685, contemporary mottled calf

12mo (136 x 80 mm). Roman type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: *⁶ A-I¹² K-L⁶ (L4 misbound before L3; final leaf blank): 126 leaves. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and ornaments. (Some very light spotting, paper flaw to outer margin of E1.)

binding: Seventeenth-century brown mottled calf (143 x 88 mm), spine with 5 compartments, 3-line title in second compartment, others gilt, edges speckled red. (Rebacked, corners defective.)

provenance: Lawrence Arthur Burd (1863-1931), philatelist, Repton schoolmaster and Machiavelli scholar, armorial bookplate to upper pastedown. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Jonathan A. Hill, New York. references: USTC 6078183