DU CHOUL (Jean)

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DU CHOUL (Jean)
Dialogus formicae, muscae, aranei, and papilionis. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1556. In-8, red half-marble, smooth back decorated with a grotesque grotesque with the gilded title in length (Modern binding). Baudrier, t. IX, p. 229. Original edition, dedicated to the Swiss naturalist Conard Gesner. Scholarly work on ants, flies, spiders and butterflies, by Jean du Choul, son of the writer and antique dealer Guillaume du Choul. This doctor and naturalist from Lyon, passionate about natural history, included among his friends the botanist Dalechamp and the printer Guillaume Rouillé, who published his works, including his monograph on oak, De varia quercus historia (1555). The book, quoted by Charles Nodier in his Entomological Bibliography, p. 62, is a kind of compilation of all the knowledge on these insects at the time; the author refers mainly to Aristotle, Democritus, Ovid, Virgil, Strabo, Pliny or Thomas More.
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