Traité du ris : contenant son essance, ses causes, et mervelheus effais, curieusemant recerchés, raisonnés & observés / par M. Laur. Ioubert.

A Paris : Chez Nicolas Chesneau ..., 1579.

32 unnumbered pages, 407, that is, 409 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : portrait (woodcut) ; 17 cm (8vo)

Adams J-391

Durling 2634

Pagination repeats 95-96

"La cause morale du ris de ... Democrite, expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses epitres. Traduite de Grec an Francais, par M. I. Guichard ... ", p. 355-75

"Dialogue sur la cacographie fransaize. Expliquant la cause de sa corruption. ... ", p. 376-'399' [i.e. -389]

"Annotacions sur l'orthographie de M. Ioubert, par Christophle de Beauchatel", p. 390-407

Translated from the Latin by Loys Papon (1st book) and Jean Paul Zangmeister (2nd-3rd books), according to the author's dedicatory epistle. See P.-J. Amoreux's Notice historique et bibliographique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Laurent Joubert, 1814 (repr. 1971), p. 117-8, for evidence that the whole work was actually composed in French

The 1st book was originally published as Traité des causes du ris et tous ses accidents, Lyons, 1560

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Hugues de Latude 6 Note: Early ownership inscription "Ex libris Pauli Ant. Cortiani[?]". Early bibliographical note in French. Binding: contemp. vellum, lacking ties. recent spine label