[Armorial binding] BOCACE. - Lot 226

[Armorial binding] BOCACE. Le Décaméron de Maistre Jean Bocace, Florentin, traduit d'italien en françois par Maistre Anthoine Le Maçon. Last edition, newly corrected. A Paris, chez Cotinet, 1662, small in-8 bound in full tan calf, ribbed spine decorated with heraldic fleurons (lion and macles), title page, one bit cracked. Bound in the coat of arms of Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736). Old handwritten bookplate L. Noblet on title, in ink. Three leaves of the table are missing. "In general, all the old editions of Le Maçon's translation are complete, and this is an advantage that the more recent editions, which have been mutilated in various places, do not have" (Brunet, I-1006).