Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sensuyt le jardin de plaisance et fleur de rethoricque contenant plusieurs beaulx liures, comme le do[n]net de noblesse baille au roy Charles VIII. le chief de ioyeusete, auec plusieurs aultres en grant nombre, comme vous pourres veois par le table de ce present liure. Imprime nouuelleme[n]t a Lyon.

Accession number
Heineman 188
Published
Imprime nouuellement a Lyon : par Olivier Arnollet, [approximately 1525].
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
"On les vend a Lyon en la rue merciere pres de sainct Anthoyne cheux Martin Boullon." -- title page.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [con]9r: Cy finist la table ce present liure Intitule le Iardin de plaisance, [et] fleur de Rethoricq[ue]. Imprime nouuellement a Lyon par Oliuier arnollet.
Date from Bechtel.
Printer's mark of Martin Bouillon, leaf [con]10r.
Title in red and black; printed in double columns.
Signatures: a-z [et]⁸ [con]¹⁰: 202 leaves.
Description
Fueillet cxcix, [3] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 24 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Unidentified inscriptions (partially visible on title page) and unidentified inscriptions, faded but visible under UV (leaf [con]10v).
Provenance
Unidentified collection/sale inscription: "v.m. no. 2469" (with 2469 struck through); [L. Potier (bookseller), sale, Paris (1870), no. 772; Victor Masséna, prince d'Essling (cited from Bechtel)]; Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel, no. 1736 (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 1736 for 170 francs; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, Bibliothèque de Mello sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 584, for £12 to Gaisse; Hector de Backer (1843-1925), his sale, Paris, part I, 17 Feb. 1926, lot 79; Dannie and Hettie Heineman; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Binding
Tan calf with gilt fillet borders, by Bauzonnet / M. Purgold.
Classification
Department