Minimum reserve price! Rare 16th-Century Lyon Imprint – Proverbia Salomonis – Seb. Gryphius – 1547 – Original Vellum Binding A genuine mid-16th century Latin imprint printed in Lyon (Lugduni) in 1547 by the renowned Renaissance printer Sebastianus Gryphius (Seb. Gryphius), one of the most important humanist publishers of the French Renaissance. This compact devotional and scholarly volume contains several Biblical Wisdom Books: - Proverbia Salomonis - Ecclesiastes - Cantica Canticorum - Liber Sapientiae - Ecclesiasticus The title page retains Gryphius’ famous printer’s device with the motto: “Virtute duce, comite fortuna” (“With virtue as guide, fortune as companion”) Details: - Place: Lyon (Lugduni) - Printer: Apud Seb. Gryphium - Year: 1547 - Language: Latin - Format: approx. 13 × 8 cm (portable Renaissance 16mo format) - Pagination: 284 pages - Binding: old vellum binding Condition: Complete and readable copy with expected age wear, minor rubbing and waviness, and patina consistent with a genuine 16th-century book. Interior remains well preserved and historically attractive. A highly collectible Renaissance-era imprint, preserved in its old binding and representative of the elegant portable editions produced by Gryphius for scholars and clergy during the humanist period.