Les obseruations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables : trouuées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie ... en trois livres

Title Variants

Alternative: Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables
Uniform: Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie & autres pays étranges

By

Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564
Prévost, Benoît, approximately 1562
Cavellat, Guillaume, 1576 or 1577
Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Paris, Chez Guillaume Cauellat, 1554

Edition

Reuuez de nouueau et augmentez de figures ...

Notes

Special title pages for books 2 and 3.

Previously published: Paris, 1553.

Colophon: Imprimé à Paris par Benoist Preuost ... pour Gilles Corrozet & Guillaume Cauellat libraires, 1554.

The leaves are printed on both sides, but are numbered on the recto side, only.

A woodcut portrait of Belon appears on leaf ĩ4 verso.

Publisher's device on special title pages and final leaf is a woodcut of a hen in a double circle, with motto: In pingui gallina.

Head-pieces; initials; side-notes.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ a-z⁴ A-2G⁴.

Leaf A3 is mis-signed as Aij; leaf I3 is mis-signed as Iiiij; leaf 2F2 is mis-signed as Biij.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 304

Subjects

Arabic scripts , Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Greece , Manuscript waste , Middle East , Natural history , rbbin , Vellum (parchment)

Call Number

DS47 .B45 1554

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.127374
OCLC: 8607182