Baifius, Lazarus; Antonio Telesio.

De re navali Annotationes in Legem II de captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re navali, per autorem recognita... Eiusdem Annotationes in tractatum De auro & argento legato, quibus vestimentorum & vasculorum genera explicantur. His omnibus imagines ab antiquissimis monumentis desumptas ad argumenti declarationem subiunximus.Item. Antonii Thylesii De Coloribus libellus, à coloribus vestium non alienus.

      Basileae, Froben [apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium] Small 4to, pp. [viii], 9-323, [viii], woodcut Froben device on title page and colophon (larger variant), historiated woodcut initials, 32 large woodcut illustrations, many full-page, some smaller woodcuts in the text (23 cuts of ships, 6 of ancient vases, 3 of costumes), long passages in Greek letter. Early 18th c. blind tooled panelled calf, minor worming through spine, ancient light waterstaining throughout. First Basel edition, preceded only by the Paris, Robert Estienne edition of 1536. Lazare de Baïf (c. 1496-1547) French humanist and diplomat. His Annotationum in L. vestis ff. de auro et argento legato, Pandectarum lib. xxxviii Ulpianus first appeared in March 1526 in Basel, printed by J. Bebel. For a detailed and extensive commentary on the illustrations of De re navali; De re vestiaria and De vasculis, see Basler Buchillustration 1500-1545 p. 536-537.Antonio Telesio of Cosenza, also Antonius Thylesius (1482-1535) classical scholar and poet. The first monograph on colours, De coloribus, first printed in 1528 by Simon de Colines as a supplement to a Galen treatise, can be considered to be the first dictionary of colour terms, it was reprinted by Goethe in his Farbenlehre. Roy Osborne in Latin terms for pigments and dye-colours, (Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists) Vol. 116, Nov. 2000, makes a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of Telesio's "often neglected but invaluable reference source". Adams B35; Lipenius I, 83, 186 & II, 69; Buisson, Ouvrages pédagogiques du 16e siècle p. 50-51; Basler Buchillustration 465; Berlin Katalog 883; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, 81 (1536, 1549 ed.)