Three books from Richard Heber's library, Paris imprints, 1528-1553, all octavo, in later bindings

Heber, Richard

Three books from Heber's library, all printed in Paris, 1528-1553, comprising:

CERRATO, Paolo. De virginitate libri III. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1528, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, text in italics, ruled in red, nineteenth-century red calf-backed boards, upper joint cracked

ROSSET, Pierre. Christus, nunc primum in lucem aeditus. Paris: Simon de Colines, (June) 1534, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, text in italics, early annotations, without final blank leaf, early nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco, gilt edges, some headlines and printed marginalia shaved, upper joint cracked

SEPIN, Gervais. Erotopaegniωn libri tres ad Apollinem. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1553, woodcut device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, with blank leaf A8, early nineteenth-century calf-backed blue boards

together 3 volumes, all 8vo

LITERATURE:

USTC 145924, 182038 (listing 3 copies), 151291

PROVENANCE:

Richard Heber (1783-1833), Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp on flyleaves, sale, Sotheby's, April-May 1834, lots 1406 (3s, to Riego), 5972 (4s, to Riego), and 6307 (3/6, to Burt); D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleaves