[Jean BOUCHET] S'ensuyt le temple de bonne renõmée & repos des hommes et fēmes illustres trouve par le Traverseur de voyes perilleuses en plorãt le tresregrette deces du feu prīce de Thalemont unicque fils du Chevalier et Prince sãs reproche... Small in-4, red morocco, triple fillet, nicely decorated 5-rib spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Trautz-Bauzonnet). Bechtel, 93-B332 // Brunet, I-1155 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-19 // USTC, 63160. (4f.)-LXVIIIf. / +4, A-R4 / 38 lines, car. goth. / 180 x 120 mm. A friend of Rabelais and protégé of Louis de La Trémoille, whose poet laureate he was, Jean Bouchet (1476-1557), a Poitiers public prosecutor, was a prolific writer. His Temple de bonne renommée praises Charles, Prince de Talmont, son of Louis II de La Trémoille, who died at the battle of Marignan. He also takes up the history of great men and famous women... and [y] mixes a bit of everything: there's even a chapter entitled "Tabernacle des arts et sciences", in which he praises the French language. According to Bechtel, this is one of Bouchet's rarest books. Second or third edition, as rare as the first, published in 1516 by Galliot du Pré. The second and third editions were published simultaneously by Jean Trepperel-Jehan Jehannot and Alain Lotrian. The edition seems very close to the one cited by Bechtel under reference B-332, which gives the same collation, but a few differences should be noted: differences in the spelling of the title, the colophon on the 4th leaf and 3 woodcuts instead of 2. Title in red and black and 3 woodcuts, the first on the title depicting a kneeling man praying before an altar under the watchful eye of an angel, the second on the verso showing the king hunting with a falcon, and the third on the verso of the 4th leaf depicting the author offering his book to the king. Despite the differences we noted above with the copy described by Bechtel, this is most probably the same edition of which, again according to Bechtel, only two copies are known, the Firmin-Didot copy bound by Capé and the Rahir copy, ours, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Corner repair. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (bookplate, I, November 15-24, 1911, no. 860), Édouard Rahir (bookplate, II, May 6-8, 1931, no. 429) and Fairfax Murray (no number, large label From the library of Ch. Fairfax Murray).