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BELON, Pierre. L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & nafs portraicts retirez du naturel. Paris: Benoist Prevost for Guillaume Cavellat, 1555.
2o (310 x 201 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and sectional titles, woodcut portrait of Belon on title verso, two woodcuts of human and bird skeletons and 158 large woodcuts of birds in text by Pierre Gourdelle and others, numerous 11-line and smaller ornamental woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Lacking blanks A6 and L4, title a little soiled, some soiling and minor staining, a few marginal repairs on L1.) Eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt (rebacked with original backstrip preserved). Provenance: Some early marginalia; extensive notations in French in an unidentified 18th-century hand on endpages.
FIRST EDITION, mixed issue with general title-page imprint (and device) of Cavellat and Corrozet imprint on special titles. Anker pp. 9-10; BM/STC French p. 46; Garrison-Morton 283; Harvard/Mortimer French 50 (Corrozet issue); Norman 181.
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FIRST EDITION, mixed issue with general title-page imprint (and device) of Cavellat and Corrozet imprint on special titles. Anker pp. 9-10; BM/STC French p. 46; Garrison-Morton 283; Harvard/Mortimer French 50 (Corrozet issue); Norman 181.