Francesco Petrarca. Le sage resolu contre la fortune

Seconde edition. Le sage resolu contre l'adversité. Des entretiens. Moreaux de Patrarque. (French translation by François de Grenaille). Pars (= Paris)/ Paris, C. Besongne, 1646/ 1644, 2 parts in 1 vol., (8),59[=50],(6),16,208; 24,207 p., w. engr. frontisp., modern gilt lettered leather in antique style, 4to.

First few quires neatly remargined (frontisp. dam.) at fore-edge; final few quires corners restored in a similar way; both parts partly waterst. The first volume in second edition of this translation (first (1641), the second volume in first edition, a combination that we found in several other copies. Both are rare editions.