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GRÉVIN (Jacques)
De Venenis Libri Duo. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin 1571, 8vo, title with engraved vignette, numerous woodcuts in the text including frogs and snakes, a few early marginal annotations and underlinings, contents uniformly toned, first end papers with ink inscriptions, one in Latin (a gift) dated 1598, contemporary limp vellum. First Latin translation by the Augsburg physician Hieremius Martius of the French edition of Grévin's "Deux livres des venins" published by Plantin in 1568.

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