Colophon reads: Imprime à Paris par Benoist

Signatures: ã⁶, ẽ⁴, ĩ⁴, a-f⁶, g⁴, h-m⁶, n⁴, o-t⁶, v⁴, x-z⁶, A-E⁶, F⁴, G-I⁶, K-L⁴. A⁶, p. [275]-[276], and L⁴ blank

Woodcuts include port. of author, two comparing human and bird skeletons, 158 depicting birds and one bat, and 7 displaying the printer's device, some signed with a lorraine cross, others with a white cross on black diamond, some unsigned. Author mentions Pierre Goudet [i.e., Gourdelle] as an artist

Many plates captioned with excerpts from Aristotle in Greek letter. Some Greek in text as well

Also published in Paris by Guillaume Cavellat in the same year

Each part has separate title page each with printer's device

Includes index

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent.

Brunet

Library's copy has hand-colored woodcuts (except skeletons) following the color details in the contemporary text

Library has copy from Theodore Besterman's library. Cf. Besterman, T. Art books, p. 11 and Goldschmidt, E.P. Catalogue 165, 31

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