Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

53 c CORROZET, GILLES. Hecatongraphie. C’est à dire les descriptions de cent figures & hystoires. Title within woodcut architectural border; 100 woodcut text illustrations with letterpress verse legends within varying woodcut ornamental borders. [104] leaves, with B3-6 supplied from another Janot edition with verse legends in roman rather than italic type. 8vo, 158x100 mm, 17th-century English speckled calf, rebacked retaining darkened and worn original backstrip; occasional soiling, mostly marginal stains at beginning and end. Signature of Jacques [i. e., the Scottish physician James?] Primerose on title; booklabel of H. P. Kraus (sale, Sotheby’s, 4 December 2003, lot 167). Paris: Denys Janot, 1543 [i. e., 1544] [4,000/6,000] Later edition of Corrozet’s 1540 Hecatomgraphie, the second French-language emblem book after Guillaume de la Perrière’s 1539 Théâtre des Bons Engins, both of which were printed in multiple editions by Janot. “This series of editions by Denis Janot can be regarded as one of the high points of Parisian Renaissance printing in the vernacular” (Adams et al.). Adams, Rawles & Saunders F193, F195; Fairfax Murray/French 640. 54 c CORROZET, GILLES; and BONFONS, NICOLAS. Les Antiquitez Croniques et Singularitez de Paris, Ville Capitalle du Royaume de France. 56 full-page woodcuts of Parisian tombs and monuments in the second part. [16], 212; [4], 119, [3] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 161x102 mm, 19th-century red levant gilt by David; contents washed with light residual toning; morocco-edged marbled board slipcase. Bookplate of E. Délicourt. Paris:Nicolas Bonfons,1586-88 [1,500/2,500] First edition to include the illustrated second part by Bonfons. Corrozet’s guide to the history and antiquities of Paris was first published in 1532. Harvard/Mortimer-French 156. 54