[BELON (Pierre)]. Portraits d'oyseavx, animavx, serpens, herbes, arbres, hommes et femmes, d'Arabie & Egypte, obseruez par P. Belon du Mans. A Paris, Chez Gullaume Cavellat, 1557. In-8°, calf, ornate ribbed spine (16th c. binding). [X] + 123 + [I] ff. FIRST EDITION An ornate title, a portrait of the author and 191 woodcuts in the text (out of 219); bandeaux and lettrines. "Le tout enrichy de Quatrains, pour plus facile cognoissance des Oyseaux, & autres Portraits. Plus y est adiousté la Carte du mont Attos, & du mont Sinay, pour l'intelligence de leur religion." Sixteen leaves missing (15 [1 fig.], 86 [2 fig.], 87 [figured 85, 2 fig.], 105 [2 fig.], 106 [2 fig.], 107 [figured 106, 2 fig.], 110 [2 fig.], 111 [2 fig.] & 117 (2 fig.], 118 [2 fig.], 119 [2 fig.], 120 [2 fig.], 121 [2 fig.], 122 [2 fig. including "Portraict de la ville d'Alexandrie"), 123 (map of eastern Mediterranean) & the last (not num.); and eight torn without missing (25, 37, 38, 40, 71, 80, 101 & 108), ; accidents ; wetness. Graesse, I, 330; Pritzel, 518.