Beschreibung:

HERBAL, French . Le grant Herbier en francoys: Contenant les qualitez, vertus, et proprietez des herbes, arbres, gommes, semences, huylles, et pierres precieuses, extraict de plusieurs traictez de medecine, comme de Avicenne, Rasis, Constantin, Isaac, Plataire, et ypocras. Selon le commun usaige. Imprimé nouuellement a Paris. [Colophon:] Paris: Alain Lotrian...a l'enseigne de lescu de France. N.d. [c. 1528]. Chancery 4to, 190 x 133mm. (7 7/16 x 5 1/4in.), late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century white pigskin, spine lettered in blind, title, final page and a few other leaves quite badly stained, a few slight thin areas and very minor tears, small patch to upper margin of x2 catching four letters. Collation: AA bb-cc dd a-zz A-F G H-L M N-O P . 188 leaves. Type 78B. 41 lines and headline. Double column. Title printed in red and black with two woodcuts of plants, printer's device on last page with the French royal arms of Jean II Trepperel [Renouard Marques 1078], 306 text woodcuts of plants etc. (including those on title, excluding device at end), ornamental woodcut initials. EXTREMELY RARE. Brunet I, 378; Nissen BBI 2336; Cf. The Society of Herbalists' copy (sale, Sotheby's London, 13 March 1967, lot 138); Ed paris. 1521-1530 , no. 1501 (locating the incomplete BN copy); Ahumada 21. This edition follows the edition of 1526-27 (see previous lot) but contains different woodcuts. Provenance : Contemporary signature of Loys Sarreban on title and final page; E. Meyer 1836, inscription of a blank page at front; Juan Carlos Ahumada, bookplate at front, inkstamp at front and at end; the present owner.