[Symphorien CHAMPIER]. Les gestes ensemble la Vie du preux Chevalier Bayard avec sa genealogie Comparaisons aux anciēs preux chevaliers Gentilz Israelitiques et chrestiens. Oraisons lamentations et Epitaphes dudit chevalier Bayard. Contenant plusieurs Victoires des roys de France Charles.Viii. Loys.vii ｸ Francois premier de ce nom tant es Italles que autres régions et pays. In-8, fawn calf, double fillet, spine with 5 ornate nerves, edges gilt on marbling (18th century binding). Bechtel, 125/C-142 // Brunet, I-1774 // Renouard, ICP, III-792 // Rothschild, II-1505 // USTC, 49952. (78f.) / A-J8, K6 / 31 long lines, gothic car / 122 x 189 mm. A new edition (third, fourth or fifth) of this novelistic version of the life of the knight Bayard by Symphorien Champier, the famous French doctor and historian, born in 1471 (1472?) in Saint-Symphorien-le-Loise and died around 1540, whom we introduced in the previous issue and who himself had a most romantic destiny, practising medicine in Lyon, marrying one of Bayard's cousins and following the Duke of Lorraine as his doctor when he went to fight in Italy, illustrating himself at Marignan and, on his return, taking care of the municipal affairs of the city of Lyon... His story of Bayard is, as we have said, more romantic than the one written by Jacques de Mailles. It was nevertheless very successful. First published in 1524, it went through five editions in 1525, three of which were undated, which makes the order of publication uncertain. Ours is probably the third or fourth. It contains in fine a part in Latin Compēdiola illustrissimi Bayardi vita : una cum panegyricis epitaphis, anecdotes on the life of Bayard accompanied by epitaphs by Nicolas de Quarcet and Symphorien Champier. It is illustrated with 6 woodcuts in the text depicting towns, battles, castle assaults, soldiers, and numerous initials. Binding previously restored with stains and defects, hinges partly split, spotting, illegible handwritten inscription on first cover. Provenance: Baron Sosthène de La Roche Lacarelle (bookplate, 30 April-4 May 1888, no. 491) and Paul Couturier de Royas (bookplate).