BOSSUET, François (1798-1889). De natura aquatilium carmen . Lyon: Matthias Bonhome, 1558.
BOSSUET, François (1798-1889). De natura aquatilium carmen . Lyon: Matthias Bonhome, 1558. 2 volumes in one, 4 o (216 x 148mm). Bonhome's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, 466 large woodcut illustrations, folding leaf with illustration tipped to kk2 in vol. 2, strapwork head-piece, arabesque head-pieces, a large number of tail-pieces throughout ranging from type ornament to historiated block. (Lower corner of title renewed, some marginal browning, a few marginal wormtracks.) 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance : effaced inkstamp on title. FIRST EDITION of Bossuet's pictorial history of fishes, each cut being explained by short Latin epigrammatic verses. Although Baudrier attributes the woodblocks to Georges Reverdy Mortimer states that the series of fishes, shells and various sea creatures had been cut for Guillaume Rondelet's Libri de piscibus marinis , printed by Bonhomme in two folio volumes, 1554-55. One of the most extraordinary illustrations is of a monk sea monster, a drawing of which was supposedly given to Rondelet by Margurite d'Angoulme, queen of Navarre. Brunet I, 1184; Baudrier X, p. 257; Durling 660; Nissen ZBI 511; Mortimer/Harvard French Sixteenth Century Books I, 118; Petit 253.
BOSSUET, François (1798-1889). De natura aquatilium carmen . Lyon: Matthias Bonhome, 1558.
BOSSUET, François (1798-1889). De natura aquatilium carmen . Lyon: Matthias Bonhome, 1558. 2 volumes in one, 4 o (216 x 148mm). Bonhome's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, 466 large woodcut illustrations, folding leaf with illustration tipped to kk2 in vol. 2, strapwork head-piece, arabesque head-pieces, a large number of tail-pieces throughout ranging from type ornament to historiated block. (Lower corner of title renewed, some marginal browning, a few marginal wormtracks.) 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance : effaced inkstamp on title. FIRST EDITION of Bossuet's pictorial history of fishes, each cut being explained by short Latin epigrammatic verses. Although Baudrier attributes the woodblocks to Georges Reverdy Mortimer states that the series of fishes, shells and various sea creatures had been cut for Guillaume Rondelet's Libri de piscibus marinis , printed by Bonhomme in two folio volumes, 1554-55. One of the most extraordinary illustrations is of a monk sea monster, a drawing of which was supposedly given to Rondelet by Margurite d'Angoulme, queen of Navarre. Brunet I, 1184; Baudrier X, p. 257; Durling 660; Nissen ZBI 511; Mortimer/Harvard French Sixteenth Century Books I, 118; Petit 253.
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