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RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-1566). Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae piscium effigies expressae sunt. Lyon: Mathias Bonhomme, 1554.
2o (336 x 211 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous woodcuts in text. (Marginal worming to upper inner corner occassionally touching letters.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, richly stamped in blind with leaf and floral hand- and roll-tools around a central lozenge roll-tool design around and oval depicting three crosses surrounded by radiating rays (light wear to spine ends). Provenance: St. Andrews, John Dominic of Sankey, golden knight (early inscription on title: "Sum Jo[hann]is Dominici de Sankey [or Sanzey] Eq[uitis] Aurati .... S[anc]ti Andreae"); Dukes of Arenberg (Castle Nordkirchen armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the most important treatise on aquatic animals and fish published up that time. Based largely on classical authorities, in particular Aristotle, it also includes results of his own observations through experiments and anatomical investigations. It remained the standard reference work in ichthyology for over a century. Adams R-746 and R-747; BM/STC French p. 384; Garrison-Morton 282; Nissen ZBI 3474; Norman 1848.
2o (336 x 211 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous woodcuts in text. (Marginal worming to upper inner corner occassionally touching letters.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, richly stamped in blind with leaf and floral hand- and roll-tools around a central lozenge roll-tool design around and oval depicting three crosses surrounded by radiating rays (light wear to spine ends). Provenance: St. Andrews, John Dominic of Sankey, golden knight (early inscription on title: "Sum Jo[hann]is Dominici de Sankey [or Sanzey] Eq[uitis] Aurati .... S[anc]ti Andreae"); Dukes of Arenberg (Castle Nordkirchen armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the most important treatise on aquatic animals and fish published up that time. Based largely on classical authorities, in particular Aristotle, it also includes results of his own observations through experiments and anatomical investigations. It remained the standard reference work in ichthyology for over a century. Adams R-746 and R-747; BM/STC French p. 384; Garrison-Morton 282; Nissen ZBI 3474; Norman 1848.