Middle East.- Brisson (Barnabe) De regio Persarum principatu Libri tres, first edition, text in Latin and Greek, Aldine device on title, trimmed at upper edge with some loss of headlines and pagination, some water-staining, later mottled calf, worn and stained, 8vo, Paris, [Étienne Prévosteau for] Robert Colombel "in Aldina bibliotheca", 1591.
⁂ Compilation of extracts from classical sources on the Persian Empire and its religion and customs. Some copies are recorded with the date 1590 instead of 1591 on the title-page.
Provenance: Christophe Justel (1580-1649, librarian and secretary to King Henri IV of France, his ink inscription at head of title).
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