![NICANDER (fl. 2nd century BC). Les oeuvres de Nicandre, me´decin et poe'te grec. Antwerp: Plantin, 1567. [Bound with:] Jacques GRÉVIN (1539-1570). Deux livres des venins. Antwerp: Plantin, 1568 [colophon: October 1567]. 2 volumes bound in one, 4° (214 x 153mm). Woodcut initials and Plantin devices to titles, 52 woodcuts of venomous animals and plants to second work by Jehan de Gourmont after Geoffroy Ballain. (Tiny marginal hole to V1, first few leaves of second work lightly soiled and with occasional faint staining to lower margin.) Late 19th-century polished calf by Roger de Coverly, covers panelled in gilt with central gilt arms, gilt edges. Provenance: Earl Spencer (binding) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0268_000(nicander_les_oeuvres_de_nicandre_me%C2%B4decin_et_poete_grec_antwerp_planti045451).jpg?w=1)
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NICANDER (fl. 2nd century BC). Les oeuvres de Nicandre, me´decin et poe'te grec. Antwerp: Plantin, 1567. [Bound with:] Jacques GRÉVIN (1539-1570). Deux livres des venins. Antwerp: Plantin, 1568 [colophon: October 1567]. 2 volumes bound in one, 4° (214 x 153mm). Woodcut initials and Plantin devices to titles, 52 woodcuts of venomous animals and plants to second work by Jehan de Gourmont after Geoffroy Ballain. (Tiny marginal hole to V1, first few leaves of second work lightly soiled and with occasional faint staining to lower margin.) Late 19th-century polished calf by Roger de Coverly, covers panelled in gilt with central gilt arms, gilt edges. Provenance: Earl Spencer (binding) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK ON TOXICOLOGY. Jacques Grevin, although Calvinist, was a playwright and poet in the tradition of Ronsard. He also successfully practised medicine, translating in 1567 Johann Wier's famous treatise On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, followed by the present work and in 1569, a translation of Vesalius's Anatomy. Grevin died aged 31 in Turin while in service to Marguerite of France, daughter of Francis I, Duchess of Savoy. Adams G-1245; Voet 1266.
[Sold with:] LEMNIUS, Levinus (1505-1568). De miraculis occultis naturae, libri iiii. Antwerp: Plantin, 1581. 8° (161 x 105mm). Woodcut Plantin device to title and initials. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Late 19th-century polished calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). Adams L-418.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK ON TOXICOLOGY. Jacques Grevin, although Calvinist, was a playwright and poet in the tradition of Ronsard. He also successfully practised medicine, translating in 1567 Johann Wier's famous treatise On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, followed by the present work and in 1569, a translation of Vesalius's Anatomy. Grevin died aged 31 in Turin while in service to Marguerite of France, daughter of Francis I, Duchess of Savoy. Adams G-1245; Voet 1266.
[Sold with:] LEMNIUS, Levinus (1505-1568). De miraculis occultis naturae, libri iiii. Antwerp: Plantin, 1581. 8° (161 x 105mm). Woodcut Plantin device to title and initials. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Late 19th-century polished calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). Adams L-418.
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