![BELON DU MANS, Pierre (1517-1564). Les observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges. Antwerp: [Christophe Plantin for] J. Steelsius, 1555.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0273_000(belon_du_mans_pierre_les_observations_de_plusieurs_singularitez_choses045632).jpg?w=1)
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BELON DU MANS, Pierre (1517-1564). Les observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges. Antwerp: [Christophe Plantin for] J. Steelsius, 1555.
Small 8° (147 x 91mm). Woodcut device on title, portrait of the author and 44 woodcut illustrations in the text by Arnold Nicolai. (Title lightly soiled and with a short repaired tear in the margin, light dampstain in the bottom margin of some leaves, light marginal worming in some sheets.) Dark brown morocco by Coverly, with his stamp, sides gilt with a wide border, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: light marginalia in an early hand -- S.A. Yates Thompson (bookplate).
The rare first Plantin edition of Belon, first published in Paris in 1553. Belon, one of the first published explorer-naturalists, 'spent three years travelling in the Levant, from 1546 to 1549... his travels through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and the Holy Land resulted in observations more than merely botanical, in a most remarkable work which discusses the antiquities, customs and manners of the countries Belon visited, as well as the natural history. His was the most documented account of the Levant which had appeared up to that time in French' (Blackmer). Sorgeloos records a variant of this edition issued by Plantin under his own imprint. Sorgeloos 127; cf. Atabey 93 (1554 edition); Blackmer 115 (1554 edition).
Small 8° (147 x 91mm). Woodcut device on title, portrait of the author and 44 woodcut illustrations in the text by Arnold Nicolai. (Title lightly soiled and with a short repaired tear in the margin, light dampstain in the bottom margin of some leaves, light marginal worming in some sheets.) Dark brown morocco by Coverly, with his stamp, sides gilt with a wide border, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: light marginalia in an early hand -- S.A. Yates Thompson (bookplate).
The rare first Plantin edition of Belon, first published in Paris in 1553. Belon, one of the first published explorer-naturalists, 'spent three years travelling in the Levant, from 1546 to 1549... his travels through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and the Holy Land resulted in observations more than merely botanical, in a most remarkable work which discusses the antiquities, customs and manners of the countries Belon visited, as well as the natural history. His was the most documented account of the Levant which had appeared up to that time in French' (Blackmer). Sorgeloos records a variant of this edition issued by Plantin under his own imprint. Sorgeloos 127; cf. Atabey 93 (1554 edition); Blackmer 115 (1554 edition).
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