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(AMADÍS DE GAULA.) Le Septiesme Livre d'Amadis de Gaule. Volume 7 (of 12). French translation by Nicolas d'Herberay des Essarts. [8], 237, [2] (of [3]) leaves; lacks (blank?) last leaf. 16mo, 112x76 pages, 18th-century morocco gilt, bottom of spine chipped, rear joint partly cracked, cover corners worn through; margins trimmed with loss to some headlines, marginal dampstaining in second half of volume, one gathering loose. Paris: Jean Longis, 1557
First French translation, originally published in 1540-56, of the earliest and most influential romance of chivalry in Spanish, describing the fantastic adventures of a knight modelled on Lancelot.
