Lyon

BOODT (BOOT) Anselme-Boece de
Le Parfaict Joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries, où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, juste prix, moyen de les cognoitre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses
Chez Jean-Antoine Huguetan, Lyon 1644, in-8 (11 x 17,5 cm), (1 f.) (5 p.) (3 pp.) (4 p.) (3 p.) (12 p.) (3 pp.) 746 pp (pp 95 – 96 repeted); (17 f.) (1f. errata), contemporary morocco
First edition of the French translation, translated by François Bachou from the Gemmarum et lapidarum historia (1609) of the Flemish doctor and naturalist Anselm de Boodt. The work has 45 woodcut illustrations in t

French First edition, rare. Translation from Italian and Latin by Pierre de la Noue.
Bound in full sheepskin porphyry ^XVIII. Back smooth decorated. As part old red morocco. Friction to the jaws and headdresses. Good copy. Two sections of a catalog describing a similar edition pasted on a cover page.
Curious set of short articles bringing together knowledge and forgotten old ways on a variety of factors: purple, crystal, fruits, markets, precious stones, pyramids, baths, music, games. The first part deals with sixty-three subjects related to ancient and often drawn from ancient authors. The second part is filled with new discoveries, always in the form of short articles:

First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on pur fil, the only printing along with 2 Japon.
Illustrated cover with a lithographie of Emile Picq.
A small tear in the margin, without lack, to head of spine and upper cover, endpapers slightly shaded.

First edition of 700 numbered copies on vergé paper.
A good copy.

First edition.
Annotations in pencil from a precedent owner on the first free endpaper.
One tear to foot of spine slightly sunned.

First edition printed to 475 numbered copies on pur fil.
Publisher's Bradel binding of beige paper over paper boards, the author's name in red to the spine.
Foxing to the last endpaper, otherwise a good copy.

Fourth edition.
With a photographic frontispiece portrait of J.H. Fabre in the first volume.

First edition, one of 475 numbered copies on pur fil paper eserved to the subscribers, the only printing.
Publisher's Bradel binding over paper boards.
Two small stains, not serious, on the spine, otherwise nice copy.

First edition of the opening text, one of the few copies on Johannot paper, the only printing.
This volume also includes Jean Genet's 'Les bonnes' and Boris Vian's 'Les poissons morts.'
A fine copy, as new, complete with its errata leaf.