Deux livres des venins : ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, theriaques, poisons & contrepoisons / par Iaques Grevin de Clermont en Beauuaisis, Medecin à Paris ; ensemble, Les oeuvres de Nicandre, medecin & poëte grec, traduictes en vers François.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570.

Contributor:

Nicander, of Colophon

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Penn Provenance:

Bicirtis, Stephani (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

De la Foge, Michel (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 333 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 90 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Devx livres des venins

Deux liures des venins

Oeuures de Nicandre medecin et poete grec, traduictes en vers François

Oeuvres de Nicandre medecin et poete grec, traduictes en vers François

Oevvres de Nicandre medecin et poete grec, traduictes en vers François

Fingerprint:

tait eson e-st ento (3) 1568 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Anvers : De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, MDLXVIII [1568]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴ A-X⁸ Y² A-K⁴ L⁶.

Printer's device on t.p.; initials; printed marginal notes.

"Les oeuures de Nicandre medecin et poete grec, traduictes en vers François", containing the translation of Nicander, has its own pagination and title page (with a printer's device), with imprint: "A Anvers : De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin, MDLXVII [1567]".

"Discours ... sur les facultez & vertus de l'antimoine, contre ce qu'en a escript M. Loys de Launay", pages 294-333.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is bound in full limp parchment, with ms. writing (author's name?) in brown ink on spine; paper label at foot of spine with shelfmark "1935"; evidence of two ties.

Culture Class Collection copy has three ms. inscriptions on t.p., one is illegible and partially struck through; one reads "Ex libris Stephani Bicirtis [?] Lugdunensis idibus septembris anno [1581] Cracouiae"; the other reads "Michel de la Foge app. de s. al[?]esse 1594".

Cited in:

Adams, G-1245

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, 1737

OCLC:

122191630