BELLEFOREST, François de. - Lot 11

BELLEFOREST, François de. La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde. Tome second. A Paris, chez Nicolas Chesneau, 1575. In-folio, (6) ff. preliminaries, 2235 columns (2 columns per page; column 200 numbered 100 and to continue to the end), (88) ff. table. Contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed, gilt iron to spines and boards, triple framing of cold-stamped fillets on boards with fleurons in spandrels, edges (binding rubbed with lateral spalls and to second board, gilt tarnished, soiling to title with margins a little yellowed and slightly damaged, quires slightly out of order due to fatigue of inner jaws, 4 woodcuts lacking including 3 plates - Jerusalem, the Plan of Cairo and the map of Africa, tear to tail of spine). French first edition of the Cosmographia Universalis by Sébastien Münster (1489-1552), originally published in Latin in 1550, here translated and revised by the "comingeois" historiographer, cosmographer and poet François de Belleforest (1530-1583). Expanded version with many previously unpublished sections on France by Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius. Illustrated with 25 in-text figures and 1 plate, woodcut in black, including: Goa, Rhodes, Malta, Kingdom of Cefala, Cusco in Peru and Temistitan in Mexico... Pastoureau, 55. Sabin, 51400. Provenance: Count de Riocour with his ex libris label on the flyleaf and ms ex libris on the title (Edmond Du Boys de Riocour, marquis d'Aulnoy, 1815 - 1901); modern Gilbert Picot bookplate on the flyleaf.