[Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun] Vacationes autumnales

Sive de perfecta oratoris actione et pronunciatione libri III. In quibus è scriptorum elegantium monumentis, gestuum & vocum rationes non indocta copie & varietate explicantur (...). Louis de Cresolles. Paris, Ex officina Nivelliane, Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1620, 2 parts in 1 vol., (28),706, (20); 72 p., engr. title vignette, contemp. vellum, ribbed spine w. manuscript title, 4to.

Sl. browned/foxed as usual. A few other small defects, but a (very) good copy. The rare original edition, hardy ever on the market and only one copy in PiCarta (Leiden). With owner's entry of Andrew Fletcher in pen on the title p. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), Scottish bibliophile, globetrotter, author of political works and member of parliament, friend of the philosopher John Locke.