Lot 172: BAÏF, LAZARE DE.

Opus de re vestimentaria. Basel: Froben, 1531

Condition Note: 8vo (164 x 104mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, later half vellum

PROVENANCE

Belisario Bolgarino, from Siena, ownership inscription on final verso dated 25 August 1582
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

IA 111.622; VD16 B161
CATALOGUE NOTE

Originally published in 1526, this treatise about the clothing of the ancients was based on the law Vestis, ff. de auro et argento from the Digest. Baïf was a French humanist and diplomat.