Accession number
PML 83633
Published
Paris : Par Nicolas Preuost, rue Montorgueil, à l'image S. Anthoine, auec priuilege du roy, 1589.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, 1975-1977.
Notes
36 woodcuts, the only complete copy. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a set of 12 woodcuts attributed to Guillaume Le Bé I on the basis of an article in the Magasin pittoresque (1847), pp. 67-69. This article, however, appears to have created a ghost edition of 1587. The BnF woodcuts were probably reprinted by the widow of Jean Le Clerc IV, Frémine Ricard, active ca. 1620-1645.
Description
[37] leaves : ill ; 19 x 22 cm
Provenance
Jérôme Pichon; his sale, Paris, 19 April 1869, lot 396 to Bachelin-Deflorenne; Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, sale 5 November, 1879, lot 140; Bulletin mensuel de la Librairie Damascène Morgand 33 (January 1894), item 24731; Parke-Bernet sale 3733 (5 March 1975), lot 178 to H. P. Kraus.
Binding
Red gilt morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
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