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Bossuet (François): De Natura Aquatilium Carmen, Lyon, apud Matthiam Bonhome, 1558, 2 vols. in one, 4to, first edition, Bonhome's Perseus device on title, woodcut medallion portrait of the author, 466 woodcut illustrations of fish, shells and sea creatures -- one on folding leaf (some fingersoiling, some light browning and staining, chiefly in vol. II, final leaf torn with some loss of text on verso), contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered). [Adams B2607; Brunet I, 1184; Durling 660; Mortimer, French Books I, 118; Nissen ZBI 511; Waller 11789; Wellcome I, 1018]