‎VALERIUS MAXIMUS - [ ] Stephanus Winandus PIGHIUS ( editor ) :‎
‎Dictorum, factorumque memorabilium libri IX. ...repurgati...restituti per Stephanum Pighium Campensem. ...Item breve notai Iusti Lipsi....‎

‎ Antverpiae (Leiden) , Apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1585, in-8, 165 x 105 mm, 408 pp + 191 pp (for 143) + (17) nn pp ( index + privilege). Complete, collation identical with USTC 402060. Voet n° 2412B describes this edition, without however the index and the privilige leaf. Bound in contemporary full vellum, traces of ties. Small damage at the lower end of the spine but a fine copy with a near flawless interior. With a manuscript ex-libris on the title page: Ex Bib[liotheca] Mon[asterio] B.[eata] M.[aria] de Bononuntio. Aurel.[iana] Cat[alog.] 1683. The congregation of Saint-Maur re-established the Benedictine Abbey of ''Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle' in Orléans in 1653. In 1683 they took possession of new buildings, including a new library. With a 19th century printed ex-libris on the first paste down: Bibliothèque A. Kolly. Fine complete copy with an interesting provenance..‎

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