Beautiful impressions of Lyon from XVIrd

• 2 volumes in-4, full cream vellum (rel. of XIXe c.), spine raised, titles handwritten in ink. Flight. I: (1)- 55ff.- (1)- 20ff. ch.- 5 ff. not. ch. Re-sale of the original edition of 1555 rejuvenated, illustrated with a title vignette with the arms of Du Choul, 6 banners, 21 initials, 43 figures, most of them full page, and a large folded plan ( camp of the Romans), all engraved on wood (37 figures for the Castrametation & 6 figures for the baths). - Flight. II: (1) - 312 pp. -(27) ff. not. ch. first edition in first printing illustrated with a title vignette with the arms of Du Choul, 2 banners, 12 initials, 45 in-text figures at mid-page, 555 figures of medals, all engraved on wood.

Very beautiful meeting of three texts by the Lyonnais antiquary Guillaume du Choul (around 1496-1560), counting among the most beautiful works published by the Lyonnais printer Guillaume Rouillé, devoted to ancient and particularly Roman civilization, respectively concerning religion Roman, castrametation, that is to say the art of choosing and arranging the location of a camp or a stronghold, and baths. The magnificent woodcuts are the work of Pierre Eskrich, also known as Pierre Vase, who was one of Guillaume Rouillé's favorite artists and the author of incomparable engraved suites. The “Discourse on Castrametation” is essentially a commentary on the plates on the Roman army. It is believed that this engraved suite was inspired by Du Choul by the drawings of Trajan's Column that he had observed during his stay in Rome. The “Discourse on the Religion of the Ancient Romans” is famous for the abundance of its illustrations. The work is dedicated to Claude d'Urfé in gratitude for the services rendered to the author and his family in Rome, an allusion to the stay of Jean Du Choul in the suite of the ambassador of the King of France. This text served as an iconographic repertoire for several painters such as Nicolas Poussin.