CAYET (Pierre Victor Palma). L'Heptameron de la... Lot 17

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.