Estienne, Charles.

Seminariu[m] siue Plantarivm Earum arborum…etiam conserendi vocabula apud authores benè recepta hoc libello declarantur.

Paris, R. I Estienne 1536.

8vo (158 x 104 mm.). 107 [18], [3 blank]p. Roman type for Latin, italic for French (scattered Greek), THREE TEXT DIAGRAMS, a woodcut Estienne title device.

Late 18th-century sheep backed pastepaper boards (worn, defective joints cracked), flat spine and label gilt, red edges.

With: Estienne, Charles.        1504-1564.
            De Re Hortensi Libellus.  Paris, R. I Estienne 1539. 8vo. 140, [4 blank]p. Type, design and device as above (I).

With: Estienne, Charles.        1504-1564.
            De vasculis libellvs.  Paris, R. I Estienne 1536. 8vo. 56, [7]p. Type, design and device as above (I-II).

With: Estienne Charles.        1504-1564.
            De re vestiaria Libellvs.  Paris, R. I Estienne 1536. 8vo. 68, [10], [2 blank]p. Type, design and device as above (I-III).

           Ad I-II: “Two of the most important agricultural treatises by Charles Estienne” (Oberlé, tr.). First Edition, on fruit trees and their cultivation. The second work is a guide to plants and trees with a new preface addressed to his eight-year-old nephew, the future printer Henri II Estienne.
            Ad III-IV: Adapted from scholarly texts by Lazare de Baïf (1496-1547), these works treat ancient Roman domestic and ceremonial containers and clothing, respectively. Both have a French glossary of terminology. Charles originally prepared them to tutor Baïf’s son, Charles.
           In good condition (minor pale stains in I and IV), library stamp of the Seminaire du Troyes, early partly effaced ownership inscription reading ?”Fr. Stephanus” and three other inscriptions in different hands on the title, Greek and Latin marginal note on one page.
¶Ad I-II: Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus 682.
Ad I: Horodisch, “Die Geburt eines Kinderbuches im 16. Jahrhundert” in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1960 217,IV; Renouard, Annales de l’imprimerie des Estienne 42,2; Cioranesco 9555; Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVI^e siècle V: 158; Stevenson, Catalogue of Botanical Books in the [Hunt] Collection 37; see Simon’s Bibliotheca gastronomica 605.
Ad II: Renouard 47,1; Moreau V: 1313; Johnston, The Cleveland…Horticultural Collections 53; see Pritzel’s Thesaurus literaturae botanicae 2745.
Ad III: Renouard 44,21; Moreau V: 35.
Ad IV: Renouard 44,20; Moreau V: 34; see Lipperheide’s Katalog der…Kostümbibliothek Ba 2.

Item #11277

Price: $2,400.00