BELON (Pierre). Les Observations de Plusieurs singulartitez - Lot 277

BELON (Pierre). Les Observations de Plusieurs singulartitez et choses mémorables, trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autre pays étranges... revue de nouveau & augmentez de figures. A Paris, chez Hierosme de Marens & la Veufve Guillaume Cavellat, 1588. Small in-4 (21.6 x 15.5 cm), [12] ff, 468 pp, [1] f. (completed printing, imprint on verso). 17th-century speckled tan basane, 5-rib spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, speckled edges (binding a little worn, very slight foxing, tiny wormholes in margins). The only edition of this work printed in round letters. It consists of a title page and 11 preliminary leaves (epistle, preface, table), with a portrait of the author on the verso of the last leaf of the table, and 468 pages of text. The text is illustrated with two full-page maps (Abydus and Alexandria) and 42 black woodcut vignettes depicting the flora, fauna and peoples of the regions visited. Without the folding map of the Lemon Islands and Mount Athos. Brunet, I, 762.