Henri ESTIENNE. Traicté de la conformité du langage françois avec le Grec... Small in-8, red morocco, triple fillet, smooth spine with long title, interior roulette, gilt edges ( 18th century binding). Brunet, II-1075 // Cioranescu, 9604 // De Backer,8. (18f.)-171 / *8, **10, a-k8, l6 / 94 x 158 mm. Second edition of this work by the first and most national of our sixteenth-century prose writers, after Rabelais and Montaigne (Charles Nodier). A highly erudite printer of works in Latin, Greek and oriental languages in fields as varied as philosophy, theology, ancient texts and the sciences, Henri Estienne was also the author of scholarly works, notably on linguistics. His Traicté de la conformité du langage français avec le grec establishes how close the French language is to the Greek, not only in a large number of words [...] but also in several beautiful ways of speaking. but also in several beautiful ways of speaking [...] and consequently how much shorter is the path to cognition for those born in France. The original edition appeared in Geneva in 1565, and was followed by the present edition. Some passages have been omitted. A fine copy in 18th-century red morocco. Provenance: Francesco Rizzo Patarol (bookplate).