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BOSSUET, Franois. De natura aquatilium carmen, Lyon: Matthias Bonhome, 1558. 2 volumes in one, 4 (215 x 145mm.), Bonhomme's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, 466 large woodcut illustrations, strapwork head-piece, arabesque head-pieces, a large number of tail-pieces throughout ranging from type ornament to historiated block (washed), red morocco by Masson-Debonnelle, gilt-lettered on spine, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g.
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 extrordinary 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.
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 extrordinary 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.