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COUILLARD, ANTOINE. 1557 Les Antiquitez et Singularitez du Monde.

COUILLARD, ANTOINE. Les Antiquitez et Singularitez du Monde. [20], 136 leaves. 8vo, later 19th-century Jansenist-style red morocco by Hardy; contents unobtrusively washed. Paris: Jean Dallier, 1557

  • Notes: first edition of a synopsis of biblical cosmology, geography, history, the genealogy of the earliest generations of man, and the settlement of various parts of the world by them or their descendants, including the discovery of the New World by Noah and his children ("combie[n] qu''il ne soit trouvé par escrit"). Alden 557/9. OCLC and RLIN locate only the NYPL and Harvard copies. See also lot 76.
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