ETHNOGRAPHY - BOEMUS (Johann) - Mores, leges,... Lot 45

[ETHNOGRAPHY] - BOEMUS (Johann) - Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium, per Ioannem Boëmum [] - Lyon ; Joannem Tornaesium & Gul. Gazeium, 1556 - 1 volume In-16° - 374, [37] pages - Small angular lack to the title (soiled) as well as to the first 8 leaves, 1 worm hole in the head of a pin crossing the whole of the leaves and affecting only very little the reading, some marginal annotations and passages underlined formerly, some scattered halos at the beginning of the work - Mark of the editor to the title - Work divided into 3 parts, : Africa, Asia, Europe in which the author offers 1 historical, geographical and ethnographic summary of the known world (1st edition: 1520) - Binding early XXth century marbled tan calf - Spine decorated with fleur-de-lis and titled in gold - 2 old handwritten bookplates crossed out on the title, 1 third: Delavice, 1 last in fine: François LB - Quite a good copy of the work cited as the 1st scientific approach of ethnography by Johann Boemus, German humanist and ethnologist of the Renaissance.