POLYBE.
The First Five Books of the Histories of Polybius Megalopolitein. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1558. In-folio, brown basane, boards framed with a cold roulette and decorated with a filleted decoration punctuated at the corners with a fleuron, orientalist cartouche in the center, spine ribbed (Binding of the time).
Cartier, n°415.
Beautiful edition in the French translation by Louis Meigret, decorated with a beautiful architectural frame for the title and a double-page plate for the design of the Rommeins camp.
Incomplete of leaves v3 and v4 corresponding to pp. 233-236. Small marginal wetness on several leaves, including the title. The endpapers are missing. Binding very restored.
