[Rarebooks] FS: Rondelet's LIBRI DE PISCIBUS MARINIS, 1554/1555, with 400 woodcuts of fish and aquatic life

[Charles Agvent]

RONDELET,  Guillaume [RONDELETIUS, Gulielmus]. LIBRI  DE  PISCIBUS
MARINIS,  IN  QUIBUS VERAE PISCIUM EFFIGIES EXPRESSAE SUNT....  Lyons:
Matthiam  Bonhomme  1554/1555. First Edition. ...QUAE IN TOTA  PISCIUM
HISTORIA  CONTINEANTUR,  INDICAT  ELENCHUS   PAGINA  NONA  ET  DECIMA.
POSTREMO  ACCESSERUNT  INDICES NECESSARIJ. Folio (8" x 13")  bound  in
recent  full  calf with five raised bands, gilt-lettered spine  label,
and  some  blind  tooling. Two parts in one volume: (16),  583,  (25);
(12),  242,  (10)  pages. Titles with woodcut device, each  part  with
privilege  leaf and woodcut portrait of the author, woodcut  initials,
ornaments  and over 400 woodcut illustrations of fish and other  forms
of  aquatic life throughout. Adams R 746 & 757; Casey Wood, 541: "this
famous  grandfather of modern ichthyology"; Nissen 3474; Norman  1848.
Woodcut  of  fish on page 238 of first part pasted over  with  another
woodcut,  Y4  in  first  part  and g2 &  n3  in  second  all  slightly
defective  at  fore-edge  (repaired with loss of a few  letters,  some
supplied  in  manuscript),  H1 of second part defective  at  foot  (no
loss)  and  H6 (final leaf) stained at edges and defective  (no  loss,
laid  down), small ink monogram stamped on verso of first title,  very
light  water-staining  to upper half, otherwise very clean. Near  Fine
copy of this scarce title with wonderful woodcuts.            $8500.00

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