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MILLES, Jean de (c. 1490 - 1563)

Lot 66
21.11.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 859094
Lot 66 | MILLES, Jean de (c. 1490 - 1563)
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€ 12 000 – 18 000
MILLES, Jean de (c. 1490 - 1563). Praxis criminis persequendi, elegantibus aliquot figuris illustrata. Paris : Simon de Colines, 1541.

Édition originale de ce célèbre ouvrage de procédure criminelle, magnifiquement illustré de 13 grands bois à pleine page. Partant d'une affaire criminelle fictive - un gentilhomme, qui a perdu un procès, décide de se venger et engage des soldats déserteurs pour assassiner ses adversaires et leur avocat, dans un quartier de la rive droite à Paris - Jean de Milles décrit toutes les étapes de l'enquête en se reférant aux textes de loi, de l'assassinat, à l'exécution des coupables en passant par l'enquête (étude de la scène du crime, interrogatoire des témoins, la question).
Chaque étape est illustrée de bois gravés à pleine page.
Cette illustration est considérée comme de très grande qualité (Firmin-Didot parle même de chef-d'oeuvre) et est attribuée soit à Mercure Jollart, soit au Maître de François de Rohan, ou encore à un artiste de l'atelier de Geoffroy Tory.
Brun, Le Livre français illustré de la Renaissance, 250 ; Schreiber, Simon de Colines, n°178 (illustration sur double page) ; Mortimer, Harvard French Books, 374 ("[Illustrations] extraordinarily rich in details of contemporary life and criminal procedure").

Exemplaire en reliure de l'époque, il est bien complet des feuillets blancs (2 liminaires et un final), portant plusieurs fois la signature "Johan de Chaumont" (ou "Jehan de Chaumont de Socquance") et de nombreuses annotations marginales.

Grand in-8 (293 x 205 mm). 2 feuillets blancs, titre (armes au verso), feuillet de dédicace, instructions aux lecteurs, 85 ff. numérotés, errata au verso du f. 85, un feuillet blanc. Exemplaire à l'adresse de Simon de Colines et d'Arnould et Charles L'Angelier. 13 grands bois à pleine page et nombreuses lettrines gravées sur bois. Reliure de l'époque : veau brun, double encadrement à froid des plats avec fleur de lys aux angles. Plusieurs galeries de vers traversent l'exemplaire, avec très légère atteinte au texte sans gravité, quelques renforts en marges, dos refait.

A beautifully illustrated first edition of the classic French law book on the criminal procedure. 13 large full page woodcuts. A good copy in its contemporary binding (rebacked), with contemporary provenance.
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