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LA CROIX DU MAINE, FRANÇOIS GRUDE DE. Premier Volume de la Bibliotheque du Sieur de la Croix-Du Maine. Qui est un Catalogue General de Toutes Sortes d'Autheurs, qui on escrit en Francoisdepuis Cinq Cents Ans & Plus. Woodcut portrait of Henry III on title verso; woodcut of design for book-case on 2V4r. [44], 558, [5] pages. Folio, 350x218 mm, later 17th-century 1/4 calf; some light dampstaining along bottom edges, portion of blank lower margin of title torn and restored. wide-margined copy. Paris: Abel l'Angelier, 1584
first edition of the first French national bibliography;all published. Pages 330-31 contain an account of Nostradamus and his writings. Besterman, Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography [XXXIV]; Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 29.
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