Lot n° 93
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ESTIENNE, Charles - Lot 93
ESTIENNE, Charles
L'Agriculture et Maison rustique
Paris, Jacques du Puis, 1564
FIRST RURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
ORIGINAL EDITION
In-4 (222 x 153 mm). Woodcut headbands and numerous initials.
CONDITION: A second-issue copy, in which all errors have been corrected. Conforms in this respect to the collation of the Gallice-Schwerdt copy, that of Jeanson (Monaco, 1987, no. 211) and that of the BnF (S-4430).
COLLATION: ã4 ẽ4 ĩ2 a-z4 A-S4 T2 (ĩ2 blank): (10)-155-(11) ff., a1r-Q3r folioed 1-155 (Q2r misfolioed 145 for 154)
ANNOTATIONS: a few marginal annotations in an early hand, in brown ink, very faded
Modern binding in imitation of the 16th century. Greenish-brown calf, double-framed cold-stamped fillets, gilded fleurons in the corners, mute spine with ornamented nerves, edges mottled.
PROVENANCE: wet stamp on title leaf, partly faded.
Washed copy, marginal soiling to title leaf and last two leaves.
Charles Estienne (1504-1564), a physician by trade, belonged to the famous family of Renaissance humanists and printers. He was the third son of Henri Estienne (c. 1470-1520) and the brother of François (1502-1550) and Robert Estienne (1503-1559), printer to the king for Hebrew and Latin (in 1539) and for Greek (1540). Charles Estienne succeeded his brother Robert as King's printer in 1551.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 30233 -- Brunet, II, 1074 -- Thiébaud, 337-338, who describes only the first state -- Schwerdt, I, 165 -- Souhart, 169-170
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