Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco

26. GRANd heRBIeR (Le) en françois.
contenant les qualitez, vertus et proprietez des
herbes, arbres, gommes, semences, huyles, et
pierres precieuses. Extraict de plusieurs traictez
de medicine, comme de Avicenne, Constantin,
Isaac… Imprimé nouvellement à Paris par Alain
Lotrian, s.d. (1535), € 15.000
4to, ll.(22), CLXVI, modern binding in full morocco,
blind-tooled (signed René Assourd). Illustrated by more
than 300 woodcuts of branches, many with flowers and
fruits. Scarce edition of the first French Herbal, first published
in Besançon in 1478 “Le Grant Herbier was
repeatedly printed in France, where it received heary use by
owners who seem to have subjected it to more than average
wear... Complete and undamaged copies are almost unheard
of. The work is also excessively rare in either 15th or 16th editions”
(Anderson). (Copy neatly washed, one corner
restored at the first and last ll.). Klebs 58. Hunt 35. Nissen
2336. [11364]
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