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[BOOK XVI].
BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François).
The Cabinet of Minerva.
Rouen, G. Vidal, 1597.
Fees include commission and taxes.
BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François).
The Cabinet of Minerva.
Rouen, G. Vidal, 1597.
Small 12mo, (6) leaves, 254 pp., (3) leaves (table of contents), ornate woodcut letters, typographical ornamentation. Late 19th-century polished chestnut morocco, spine with 5 raised bands,
author, title and date gilded, cassettes and covers decorated with a very finely mosaicked design of brown and burgundy leather pieces in scrolls and foliage, double gilt fillet on the edges, roulette on the corner bosses, bronze-green polished morocco linings and endpapers framed by a triple gilt fillet, second endpaper marbled, gilt edges (very slight oxidation of the paper).
A very fine copy, in excellent condition, in an unsigned binding, yet of impeccable taste and executed with the utmost skill.
Only one copy in the CCFr.
A curious collection which first appeared the previous year and is here in its first reprint (the BnF lists three, including the original), but of which copies are almost never found for sale.
[Sign. ã6, A12-X12, y6].
A successful French novel from the late 16th century, it is the fifth and final part of Les Aventures de Floride. A complete work in its own right, it was sold separately and has its own title (Tchemerzine, I, 664). It recounts the adventures of characters introduced into the Cabinet of Minerva, where nymphs explain the objects found there to them; this narrative serves as a pretext for literary, historical, spiritual and scientific reflections, recipes and observations…
François Vatable Brouard, known as Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626), the son of a Calvinist pastor whose pupils included Agrippa d’Aubigné and Pierre de l’Estoile, converted to Catholicism.
USTC 11952. Brunet I, 805.