Peiresc & His Books
Boston: David Godine Publisher, 1970.
Paperback.
One thousand copies of this essay were printed in Monotype Bembo on Ingres paper. The cover paper is Roma. The illustrations were printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. This is the seventh in the series of poems, tracts & broadsides to be published & printed at the press of David Godine. With an Introduction by Arthur Freeman.
A tribute to French astronomer, scholar and antiquary Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) by his protégé Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). Gassendi penned a contemporary biography of Peiresc after his death in 1637 entitled The Mirrour of True Nobility & Gentility, being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk.
Item #9022516-1/8 x 9", sewn blue printed wrappers, unpaginated, frontis. portrait, full page photographic illustration.
Faint spot front wrapper panel, clean, tight, a fine copy.
Price: $20.00