BALUZE, Étienne. - Lot 16

BALUZE, Étienne. Vitæ paparum Avenionesium. Parisiis. Franciscum Muguet, 1693. 2 vols. in-4°, ivory vellum, ivory title page (contemporary binding). (11) ff. 1 pl. of coins, 571, (1ff. ) and reprint on p. 576 (1 leaf probably blank missing) to p. 11478 (two-column pagination), (15) ff. index for vol. I; vol. II: Title and reprint without missing column 5 to p. 1230 (two-column pagination, numbering errors without missing), (6) ff. index. Some foxing or browning, generally light, affecting certain sections, especially in Volume I. Ex libris René Fage and stamp of the Colonna library, one of whose members was a cardinal in Avignon under Clement V. Barjavel, I, 131, emphasizes the interest of this work.