‎SIMEON Sethus ( Gabriel Symeon ) :‎
‎Les Illustres Observations Antiques du Seigneur Gabriel Symeon Florentin . En son dernier voayage d'Italie l'an 1557.‎

‎" Lyon, Ian de Tournes ( Jean de Tournes ) , 1558, in-4°, 22 x 14,5 cm, (16) nn pp + 134 pp . Signatures A - B4 a-r4 (lacks the last blank leaf r4 ), Bound in supple vellum, with traces of ties, manuscript title on spine, endpapers renewed. Vellum wrinkled, interior fine. Nice copy, complete but for the last blank leaf. First French edition illustrated with a great number of finely executed wood engravings ( by Le Petit Bernard ) . The author accompanied the Duc de Guise to his travels to the Provence and Italy . Upon his return he published this account e.g. on newly discovered Roman antiquities. Among the many descriptions and illustrations we name : Acteon's metamorphosis ; the Anet Fountain ; a view of Fontaine de Vaucluse with Petrarca's house , the Roman calender... USTC N° 41595 ( with Lyon as printing place instead of Lion )."‎

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