Icones historiarum veteris testamenti. Ad Viuum expressae extremaque diligentia emendatiores factae, Gallicis in expositione homoeotelentis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui prius turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis. Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1547.
In-12, cream vellum, smooth spine, title on the horizontal (later binding).
Magnificent suite of woodcuts by Hans Lutzelburger, after the drawings of Hans Holbein. The most complete edition containing 98 figures, 6 more than the first of 1538. Each woodcut is accompanied by a Latin text and a quatrain in French by Gilles Corrozet. The engravings are here in an excellent edition.
There are 2 kinds of copies of this book with the French and Latin text, dated 1547. The first one, whose proofs are pale but beautiful, was printed on the original woodcuts; the second one, under the same date, was printed on plates.
This copy conforms in all respects to Brunet's description (III, 253) of the original woodcut. Bound with the supra-libris of Gay-Lussac, probably by Jules Gay-Lussac son of Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac famous French chemist and physicist, known for his studies on the properties of gases.
A very nice copy of great freshness, with a few leaves a little short of margin.
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