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212 - MAIOLE D'ASTE (Simon). Les Jours caniculaires c'est-à-dire :…
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MAIOLE D'ASTE (Simon). Les Jours caniculaires c'est-à-dire : vingt et trois excellents discours des choses naturelles et surnaturelles, embellis d'exemples & d'Histoires, tant Anciennes que Modernes, Sacrées et Profanes, récitez par un Théologie, un Philosophe et un Gentil-homme. Composez en latin par Messire Simon Maiole d'Aft, Evesque de Valtourre où sont compris plusieurs autres choses du tout admirables, qui se font en l'air, sur la Mer & sur la Terre, par l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique, & par toutes les Terres nouvellement descouvertes, avec tout ce que l'Artifice des hommes a jamais inventé de remarquable. Put into French by R. de Rosset. Rare first French edition dated 1609 of this curious work featuring three symbolic characters. Paris, Robert Foüet, 1609. In-8, full red morocco, covers framed with gilt fillets and decorated at the four corners of each cover with the arms of Charles Alexandre de Lorraine, edges gilt. Regimented copy, 4 ff.n.ch. (title and dedicatory epistle), 1029 pages, 30 ff.n.ch. (tables). Letters, headbands and lamp-ends engraved in black, 1 illustrated publisher's vignette on the title page. Upper head cap gone, small cracks at spine ends, spine ends rubbed, spine wrinkled, minor stains and small wormholes on boards. Title page restored, some foxing. First French edition, dated 1609. Two other volumes followed, published in 1610 and 1612. A lavish encyclopaedia of nature, it is a compendium of all the natural history knowledge and opinions of the time, with a copious reference to the supernatural. This ingenious and eccentric work deals with meteors, birds and plants, as well as magic, dragons created by the mating of eagles and wolves, a woman who fathered 300 children "from a single stomachful", the Devil and a tree that has lived in Memphis since the creation of the world. This gigantic exposition of knowledge and speculation takes the form of a dialogue between a philosopher, a theologian and a gentleman. Simon Maiole d'Ast was bishop of Volturara in the Capitanate. He published the "Dierum canicularum" in Latin, for the first time in Rome in 1597. Binding decorated with the coat of arms of Charles Alexandre de Lorraine (1712-1780), brother of the German emperor François I (O.H.R. plate no. 48). Charming vignette engraved by Léonard Gaultier on the title page. A fine copy, in a superb morocco binding embossed with the cipher of the Dukes of Lorraine. (Brunet III, 1323; absent from Caillet; Dorbon Aîné, "Bibliotheca esoterica", n°2856, p. 299, 1904). Provenance: from a member or the library of the Dukes of Lorraine.
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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