[FOILLET]. Henri ESTIENNE. L'Introduction au traité de la co - Lot 100

[FOILLET]. Henri ESTIENNE. L'Introduction au traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes: ou, traité préparatif à L'Apologie pour Herodote [...]. [Jacques Foillet], Sur Les Hasles [Montbéliard], 1607. Small in-8° of [32], 546, 29 pp. Red Bradel-style boards, gilt title (19th century binding)New edition, following the original published in 1566. "The work is Estienne's best-known writing in French, a monument to French prose and the satirical genre. Under the guise of a defense of Herodotus, the book is a violent attack on Roman Catholicism and a satire of 16th-century society." (Renouard I, 127). From the libraries of Baron d'Espiard and Yves Cazaux, with their respective engraved bookplates. Binding rubbed, title page reinforced, a few rings. A good copy.