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BOUSSARD, GEOFFROY. De divinissimo misse sacrificio . . . compe[n]diosa & brevis expositio. [4], 100 leaves. 4to, 193x135 mm, contemporary Parisian calf over pasteboard made from printed binder's waste, with full-size 4-compartment historiated panel stamp on covers, some wear to spine ends and cover corners, ties lacking; marginal soiling on opening leaves, scattered early marginalia, marginal dampstaining at end, rear free endpaper imperfect, with paper corrosion and traces of mold. Early owner's signatures ("Boursier") on title; large letterpress booklabel of Jean Petite of Melun, Apostolic Protonary of Bayeux, dated 1687; modern booklabel of K. J. Hewett. (Paris: Josse Bade for) Jean Petit, (24 October 1511)
first edition of a treatise on the Mass by a theologian and chancellor of the University of Paris (1439-circa 1522?), in an unrestored contemporary binding with panel stamp depicting (clockwise) God the Father, St. Peter, King David, and St. John the Baptist. Renouard (Badius) II, 220; Gid, Les Reliures à Plaques Françaises 186.
