Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, grecz & latins, sacrez & prophanes
By: mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, surno[m]mé Launay, natif de Bretaigne ; auec les pourtraicts & figures
Contributors: Longis, Jean, -1562?, printer; Le Mangnier, Robert, active 1557-1584, printer
Published: 1561
Language: fre
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: The Marvelous; Early works to 1800; Curiosities and wonders; Monsters
Other titles: Histoires prodigievses extraictes de plvsievrs famevx avthevrs
Notes: Signatures: ã⁸ ẽ⁴ A-Y⁸ Z⁴.

Armorial title vignette (arms of Jean de Rieux, the dedicatee); head-piece; decorative initials; woodcut illustrations throughout.

First published in Paris in 1560. Cf. Brunet.

Brunet I, col. 982-983

Binding: vellum; foredges turned down over textblock; author, title and date written in ink on spine; page edges sprinkled red.