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![Four parts in one vol. 16mo. [xxxii], 159p. & [iix], 280p. & 47p. & 267, [5]p. Greek & Roman type (parallel text), woodcut initials & headpieces, MAIN & THREE DIVISIONAL TITLES IN A MANNERIST WOODCUT FRAME OF GROTESQUERIES, SWAGS, etc. (its first use). Contemporary sheep (worn), panels alike with single outer blind rule & double inner gilt rule borders, daisies at corners, oval foliage arabesque medallion at center, flat spine in four compartments with gilt stylized foliage tools, edges gilt & gauffered — each with a different design contrasting plain & gilt surfaces.First Edition of the first such collection in Greek. Henri Estienne II launched the vogue with his 1566 Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Crespin immediately capitalized with the present gathering of more than two dozens texts on agriculture, country living and wise sayings, for which he provided facing Latin translations — mostly by Protestants — in pocket format. This copy has the title to Part II with the date 1569 in Greek, an unrecorded variant. Some browning and staining, narrow worm trail in outer edge of two quires.Gilmont, Bib. des éditions de J. Crespin I: 69/5 (1b, 2 unrecorded state as above, 3a, 4a); Hoffmann III: 234; Legrand, Bib. hellénique IV: 167-8, 674 “Rarissime volume”; Desgraves, Élie Vinet 92, 190.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6830.jpg "Four parts in one vol. 16mo. [xxxii], 159p. & [iix], 280p. & 47p. & 267, [5]p. Greek & Roman type (parallel text), woodcut initials & headpieces, MAIN & THREE DIVISIONAL TITLES IN A MANNERIST WOODCUT FRAME OF GROTESQUERIES, SWAGS, etc. (its first use). Contemporary sheep (worn), panels alike with single outer blind rule & double inner gilt rule borders, daisies at corners, oval foliage arabesque medallion at center, flat spine in four compartments with gilt stylized foliage tools, edges gilt & gauffered — each with a different design contrasting plain & gilt surfaces.First Edition of the first such collection in Greek. Henri Estienne II launched the vogue with his 1566 Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Crespin immediately capitalized with the present gathering of more than two dozens texts on agriculture, country living and wise sayings, for which he provided facing Latin translations — mostly by Protestants — in pocket format. This copy has the title to Part II with the date 1569 in Greek, an unrecorded variant. Some browning and staining, narrow worm trail in outer edge of two quires.Gilmont, Bib. des éditions de J. Crespin I: 69/5 (1b, 2 unrecorded state as above, 3a, 4a); Hoffmann III: 234; Legrand, Bib. hellénique IV: 167-8, 674 “Rarissime volume”; Desgraves, Élie Vinet 92, 190.")
Crespin, Jean. ed. c. 1520-1572.
Geneva, Jean Crespin 1569-1570.
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Crespin, Jean. ed. c. 1520-1572.
Geneva, Jean Crespin 1569-1570.
Price: $1,600.00
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