CAYET (Pierre Victor Palma).
L'Heptameron de la Navarride ou Histoire entière du Royaume de Navarre depuis le commencement du monde. Taken from the Spanish of Dom-Charles Infant, of Navarre. Paris, Pierre Portier, 1602. In-12, fawn morocco, covers framed with a triple gilt fillet and seeded with cold figures, spine decorated with the same repeated gilt figure, black morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger).
First edition of this epic poem of almost 18,600 decasyllabic lines, presented as a verse translation of the Cronica de los Reyes de Navarra composed in the mid-15th century by Don Carlos, Prince of Viane.
Among the introductory pieces is a sonnet by Du Bartas.
Bound in the collector's cipher.
Short margins, some running titles cut or damaged by the binder's knife, some quires foxed. Book F (pp. 121-144) duplicated.
Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°110.
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