L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux : auec leurs descriptions & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel / escrite en sept liures par Pierre Belon du Mans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564.

Contributor:

Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568, bookseller.

Prévost, Benoît, -approximately 1562, printer.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Birds--Early works to 1800.

Birds.

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Penn Provenance:

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876 (bookplate)

Bibliotheca Hammeriana (former owner)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 381 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 32 cm (folio)

Manufacture:

Imprime a Paris : Par Benoist Preuost ...

Other Title:

Histoire de la natvre des oyseavx

Histoire de la nature des oiseaux

Place of Publication:

A Paris : On les vend ... en la boutique de Gilles Corrozet ..., 1555.

Notes:

Books 2-7 each has special dated title leaf with Corrozet's woodcut device.

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf L3v, which reads: Imprime a Paris par Benoist Preuost, demeurant en la rue Frementel, prés le cloz Bruenau, à l'enseigne de l'estoille d'or. 1555.

Signatures: ã⁶ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ a-f⁶ g⁴ h-m⁶ n⁴ o-t⁶ v⁴ x-z⁶ A-E⁶ F⁴ G-I⁶ K-L⁴.

Leaves A6 and L4 are blanks.

Errors in pagination.

Woodcut title vignettes, illustrations, portrait, initials and head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953.

Penn Libraries copy has gold-tooled red leather bookplate ("Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmini Didoti") on front pastedown; ms. ownership inscription ("Bibliothecae Hammerianae") and shelf mark on verso of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves of gathering a dampstained at tail margin.

OCLC:

4096085