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Author : Bonaventure Rousseau de Basoches
Title : Sacra per compendium historia. In qua, universa quae à mundo condito, usque ad Christum natum gesta sunt ; breviter, sed dilucide & ordine perstringuntur. Authore M. Bonaventura Rousseau de Basoches Parisiensi, Regis Eleemosinario.
Language : Text in Latin
Publisher : Parisiis : Apud Tussanum du Bray, via Iacobaea, sub Spicis maturis, 1634. First edition.
Size : 6 " X 4.5 "
Pages : 130 pages
Binding : Very good full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, outter edge of back cover worn - as shown)  under a removable protective mylar cover .
Content : Very good content (bright, tight, rare foxing and staining).

The book : Scarce 17th century first edition of this book by Bonaventure Rousseau de Basoches on the History of the World before Christ with a dedicatory epistle addressed by the author to Cardinal Richelieu.