PONTOUX (Claude de). - LANDO (Horatio).

Harangues lamentables, sur la mort de divers animaux, extraictes du Tuscan, rendues & augmentées en nostre vulgaire : Ou sont representez au vif les naturels desdits animaux, & les proprietez d'iceux, avec une rhetorique gaillarde. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, 1570. In-16, stiff vellum, red title page on spine, red speckled edges (18th century binding). Second edition of the translation, after the one published by the same bookseller in 1569, of this singular, very pleasant & facetious book, to recreate all spirits fond of gentilesse [sic]. It gives only 8 of the 11 original harangues and contains a curious Elegy on the death of a cuckold named Grongnet. Charming illustration with 13 woodcut vignettes, including one on the title. Claude de Pontoux, poet and physician, was born in Châlons-sur-Saône around 1530 and died in 1579. Small paper consolidation at the top of the title and in the margin of one leaf. Some dampstaining, wormholes restored at the bottom of several leaves. Copy placed in an 18th-century binding, the vellum has blistered on the second cover. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°42 (of the greatest rarity). - Baudrier, III, p. 267. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°641.