Anonymous [c. 1500]
Le traictie, des bestes, oyseaux | poissons, pierres precieuses | et orines, du jardin de sante
Paris, pour Antoine Verrard, c. 1500 (not after 1502)
Collation: 2 volumes (here vol. 2 only)
Vol. 2: 2°: A-X6 AA-FF6 GG8 aaa6 bbb8 A6 B8; [1] ii-clxx [13] [1 blank] [14] leaves
text in double columns, 50 lines, lettre bâtarde, woodcut initials, xylographic letter script on title and aaa1r.
Plates: full-page woodcut of anatomical man on verso of title, full-page woodcuts on K5v, R1v (within an ornamental border) and aaa1v, numerous woodcuts in the text (145 in the part on stones), device at the end
Page size: 218 x 309 mm
Binding: eighteenth-century green vellum, red morocco lettering-piece on spine, red edges
Provenance: ownership inscriptions of Nicolas Moreau seigneur d'Auteuil dated 1 September 1529 on title and at the end
Other editions: second and third editions in French: 1529. Numerous editions in various languages
References: Schuh 2241
Collection: private collection
