GUICHARD (Claude) Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1581. Funerals, & various ways of burying Romans, Greeks, & other nations, both ancient and modern. Pet. in-4 (23,8 x 15,2 cm), brown morocco, broad framed decoration of gilt fillets and motifs, gilt fleurons, central oval gilt medallion and cold funerary motifs, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs, edges gilt over marbling, small inner lace of gilt motifs (Lortic). [4] ff. 546 p., [11] ff. First edition. Title in a handsome architectural frame and 23 wood-engraved figures in the text. "The Mexicans, indeed all the westerners from the Panuco region to Labrador and Bacaleos, have a singular recommendation for burial, and take great pleasure and happiness, as do the Floridians, in being honourably buried after their death. The first two parts deal with Roman and Greek funerals, while the third describes, at a very early stage, funeral practices in America (Peru, Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Florida, Canada and Santo Domingo). The book also offers the only account of the destruction of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the discovery of the sarcophagus of King Mausoleus (pp. 379 to 381). The epistle to Duke Charles Emmanuel of Savoy is printed in civil type. Beautiful 16th century binding signed by Lortic. Stamp of the Bibliothèque de la ville d'Auxerre, repeated on pp. 13 and 546. Provenance : Georges Petit, Château de Grandvoir. Bibliography : Brun, Le livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle, 206. Brunet, II, 1806. Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des de Tournes, 616. Graesse, III, 179. Not in Sabin.