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[LIVRE DU XVIe SIÈCLE]. RONDELET (Guillaume) La première [-seconde] partie
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[BOOK FROM THE XVIth CENTURY]. RONDELET (Guillaume) La première [-seconde] partie de l'Histoire entière des poissons.
Composed first in Latin by maistre Guillaume Rondelet,... Maintenant traduite en françois sans avoir rien omis estant necessaire à l'intelligence d'icelle.
Avec leurs pourtraits au naïf. A Lion, par Mace Bonhome, 1558.
Two parts in one volume in-4, [6] f., 418 p., [6] f. (table)| [2] f., 181 p., [5] f. (table, bookseller's address), fig. 17th c. brown calf, 6-rib spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, triple gilt fillet around covers, gilt roulette at edges, marbled edges, restorations including upper jaws and corners (snagged tail cap, cracks on covers| title a little faded and rebacked, restored tear in margin M3, mq. in margin f.
Aaa4, digital traces and a few freckles in margins, rare pale halos).
First edition in French, "more sought-after than the Latin original" which appeared in Lyon the previous year| both editions are distinguished by the "fine execution of the woodcuts" (Brunet). The illustrations include over 400 woodcut figures of aquatic animals in the text, as well as a repeated portrait of the author attributed to Pierre Vase.
Translation by Laurent Joubert, who signs 8 verses on the effigy of M. Rondelet, p. [12]. Marked title, woodcut headbands, lettering and tailpieces. The care taken in the composition and printing of this work makes it one of the jewels of Lyon printing in the mid-sixteenth century.
[Sign. a6, A-Z 4, Aa-Hhh 4| [2], a-z 4, aa4].
PROVENANCE
Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934), bibliophile from Dauphiné (2 bookplates, one engraved by Stern).
(USTC 24381| Brunet IV, 1372-73)
Composed first in Latin by maistre Guillaume Rondelet,... Maintenant traduite en françois sans avoir rien omis estant necessaire à l'intelligence d'icelle.
Avec leurs pourtraits au naïf. A Lion, par Mace Bonhome, 1558.
Two parts in one volume in-4, [6] f., 418 p., [6] f. (table)| [2] f., 181 p., [5] f. (table, bookseller's address), fig. 17th c. brown calf, 6-rib spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, triple gilt fillet around covers, gilt roulette at edges, marbled edges, restorations including upper jaws and corners (snagged tail cap, cracks on covers| title a little faded and rebacked, restored tear in margin M3, mq. in margin f.
Aaa4, digital traces and a few freckles in margins, rare pale halos).
First edition in French, "more sought-after than the Latin original" which appeared in Lyon the previous year| both editions are distinguished by the "fine execution of the woodcuts" (Brunet). The illustrations include over 400 woodcut figures of aquatic animals in the text, as well as a repeated portrait of the author attributed to Pierre Vase.
Translation by Laurent Joubert, who signs 8 verses on the effigy of M. Rondelet, p. [12]. Marked title, woodcut headbands, lettering and tailpieces. The care taken in the composition and printing of this work makes it one of the jewels of Lyon printing in the mid-sixteenth century.
[Sign. a6, A-Z 4, Aa-Hhh 4| [2], a-z 4, aa4].
PROVENANCE
Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934), bibliophile from Dauphiné (2 bookplates, one engraved by Stern).
(USTC 24381| Brunet IV, 1372-73)