De prima scribendi origine et universa rei literariae antiquitate [...].

8vo: 227-[3-2 bl.] pp. (toned, some minor staining).

Contemp. limp overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (some def. at edges, ties gone). Very good copy.

Only ed. of a treatise on writing, alphabets etc. by the Flemish Jesuit H. Hugo (1588-1629), one of the 1st works on the subject. Full-page engraving (p. 83) showing the directions of writing. Sm. woodcut ill. of a "stylus" (on p. 85). Woodcut Jesuit device on title.
Ref. STCV 6633641. - DBS IV:512-513:3. - Simoni (BL) H-206.
Prov. Bibliographical notes and ownership entry of "Littré mai 1827", i.e. the French lexicographer Émile Littré (1801-1881).