Binding - BADUEL (Claude). *De ratione vitae studiosae ac li - Lot 23

Binding - BADUEL (Claude). *De ratione vitae studiosae ac literatae*. Leipzig, [1577]. [Bound together with:] PETREUS (Henricus Petrus Herdesianus, known as). Aulica vita, and in contrast to this, the private life: lucidly described by various authors, both ancient and more recent, as the following page will indicate [...]. Printed in Frankfurt am Main, by Ioannes Feyrabendt, at the expense of Sigismund Feyerabendt, 1577. In-8, stamped sowskin on the covers, with a central plate depicting a figure, framed by a frieze adorned with medallions bearing men’s heads, spine with four raised bands (contemporary German binding). A work on the marriage of men of letters. A reprint of the 1544 Lyon edition of the text by Claude Baduel, the first titular rector of the new University of Nîmes, which opened in October 1539. The text is followed by that of the theologian Petreus, on morality in the context of courtly and private life. Printer’s vignette on the last leaf From the library of Claude Lambert, bearing his bookplate. Binding scuffed; pages yellowed.