LAIGUE (Étienne de)

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LAIGUE (Étienne de)
Encomium Brassicarum sive Caulium. Cui Deus est, ventri & sapido servire palato, Me legat, optatum Brassica nota dabit. Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1531. In-8, green morocco, double framing of gilded threads joined at the corners, inner roller, gilded edges (modern binding in the old taste). Moreau, t. IV, n°211. - Vicar, Col. 35. Original edition of this very rare treatise on cabbage and its various properties, probably the first one entirely devoted to this leguminous plant. The book, which belongs to the genre of paradoxical praise, or vegetable garden paradoxes to use the term used by Dominique Brancher in Quand l'esprit vient aux plantes (2015), did not appear in Gérard Oberlé's catalogue, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, and was missing from the main gastronomic libraries. Étienne de Laigue (Stephanus Aquaeus in Latin), a diplomat and naturalist born in Berry, who died in the 1530s, is the author of a translation of Pliny and another unique treatise on turtles, snails, frogs and artichokes. A few freckles, traces of colour on a lettertrin.
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