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Le Pois, Antoine (1525-1578) Discours sur les Medalles et Graveures Antiques, Principalement Romaines.
Paris: Par Mamert Pattison, Imprimeur du Roy, au logis de Estienne, 1579.
First edition, quarto, with Estienne's device to title; illustrated with full page engraved portrait of Le Pois by Pierre Woeiriot; twenty full page engravings by the same artist; and twenty-five text woodcuts (five take up the whole page), including an unaltered Priapus; contemporary ownership inscription to title page; book label of Rouen book collector Charles Lormier (1825-1900) with his motto, "Vita Sine Litteris Mors Est," pasted to ffep; Lormier's library was sold off in a series of auctions after his death; bound in full 18th century olive morocco, gilt-tooled spine, aeg., joints cracking; 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.
Adams L-522; Mortimer French 350; Renouard Estienne page 177.
