[DCRM-L] 1659 Tyrocinium chymicum

[Matthew C. Haugen]

Interesting! I find a Geneva bookseller Aymerand or Emeran Le Melais or Le
Melays, active around a century earlier, and it appears that François
Estienne printed one or two things for him. Possibly Blasius is a
descendant of Emeran?

(https://db-prod-bcul.unil.ch/riech/imprimeur.php?ImprID=-8520323&Lang=en)

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:37 PM Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
wrote:

> Hello, all,
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> I cataloged a 1659 edition yesterday of Tyrocinium chymicum (digital
> version here: https://www.google.com/books?id=1ek9JITDVIYC) and am
> curious about a couple of things.
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> First, does anybody know anything about the Geneva printer Blasius Le
> Melais? As far as I can tell this is the only book he printed. Second, he’s
> using one of the Estienne devices on the title page (it looks like no. 18
> in Schreiber, *The Estiennes,* p. 256)—is he related to the Estienne
> Geneva operation in some way (perhaps a descendant of an Estienne?) or did
> he just steal the mark? I don’t think any Estiennes were active in Geneva
> in 1659.
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> Thanks,
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> Bob
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> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568
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Matthew C. Haugen
Rare Book Cataloger | Columbia University Libraries
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