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AGRIPPA, Henricus Cornelius. Paradoxe sur l'incertitude vanit et abus des sciences, translated into French by Louis Turquet de Mayerne. [Paris]: 1603. 12, woodcut initials (unobtrusive waterstaining to inner gutter of first few leaves, a few light spots), contemporary limp vellum (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Dacquet (armorial bookplate). Turquet's translation first appeared in 1582. Fishing is mentioned on p. 471. Brunet I, 114; Wellcome I, 84; Petit 26.
DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur. Premire semaine ou Cration du monde, Paris: Jean du Carroy, 1603. 12, added engraved portrait of the author, 19th-century brown morocco by David, gilt turn-ins, g.e. In this epic poem, first published in 1578, Du Bartas (1544-90) assembled all the scientific knowledge of his day in the guise of a description of the seven days of the Creation. The fifth day records the creation of sea and river fish. Cf. Brunet V, 98; Petit 156. (2)
DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur. Premire semaine ou Cration du monde, Paris: Jean du Carroy, 1603. 12, added engraved portrait of the author, 19th-century brown morocco by David, gilt turn-ins, g.e. In this epic poem, first published in 1578, Du Bartas (1544-90) assembled all the scientific knowledge of his day in the guise of a description of the seven days of the Creation. The fifth day records the creation of sea and river fish. Cf. Brunet V, 98; Petit 156. (2)