Lazari Bayfii Annotationes in legem II. De captivis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re navali, per autorem recognitae. Eiusdem Annotationes in tractatum de auro & argento legato, quibus vestimentorum & vasculorum genera explicantur. His omnibus imagines ab antiquissimis monumentis desumptas ad argumenti declarationem subiunximus. Item Antonii Thylesii De coloribus libellus, à coloribus vestium non alienus. Colophon: Basileae apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium MDXXXVII

SAMMELBAND OF THREE HUMANISTIC WORKS
4to. 323, [i.e. 319], [9] pp. Pp. 301-304 omitted in pagination. Collation: a-r4 s6 t-z4 A-E4 F6 G-M4 N6 O4 P6 Q4. Froben's devices on the title page and at the end. Colophon on l. Q4v. Woodcut decorative initials. Roman, italic, and greek type. With 33 in-text woodcut illustrations: 23 (4 of which are repeated) of ships, 3 of clothing (a female figure, a senator in a toga and a soldier), and 7 of vases.
Second collected edition bearing the same dedication addressed by Lazare de Baïf to the King of France Francis I (Paris, 25 August 1536) and Charles Estienne's short preface as the first edition (Paris, Robert Estienne, 1536). Both editions include the De re navali, the De re vestiaria and the De vasculis by Baïf, as well as Antonio Telesio's treatise on colours, first published in Venice in 1528.
Baïf scholarly reputation rests on these three Latin works: De re vestiaria (first edition: Basel, J. Bebel, 1526), dedicated to Jean de Lorraine, which contains his annotations to the law Vestis, ff. de auro et argento legato (Digest xxXIV il 23-5) and at the time of its publication earned him the second rank after Budé among the French scholars; De vasculis (first edition: Basel, H. Froben, 1531), dedicated to the chancellor Antoine du Bourg; and finally De re navali first appeared in Robert Estienne Paris edition of 1536. This latter edition, as well as the present Froben edition, is accompanied by illustrations derived from sketches of the pillar of Trajan and other monuments which had been obtained for Baïf by the French ambassador to Rome, François de Dinteville. After Froben reprint, another edition, expanded and revised by the author, was published posthumously by Robert Estienne (Paris, September 1549). Charles Estienne rearranged Baïf's work for the use of young students (various editions, 1535-37).
Lazare de Baïf (Bayfius, Bayfus) was born around 1496 of a noble family of Anjou at the Château des Pins near La Fleche. After studying law, he went to Rome with Christophe de Longueil (c. 1516) and studied with Janus Lascaris and Marcus Musurus, no doubt at the recently established college on the Quirinal. After several years Baïf returned to France and taught law and letters at the University of Angers. In these years he laid the groundwork for his learned publications, investigating the practical side of ancient life on the basis of the Corpus juris, according to the method developed by Budé. In 1525 Baïf entered the service of Cardinal Jean de Lorraine. After taking part in the peasants war in Alsace, he followed the cardinal to Lyon. They were on their way to Spain, but the freeing of King Francis I made that further trip unnecessary. In 1527 he was named apostolic protonotary, a position which enabled him to receive two abbeys in commendam. In 1529 Francis I appointed him resident ambassador to Venice, and he left for his new post on 25 June. In Venice Baïf showed great zeal in producing scrupulous diplomatic dispatches. Baïf received Girolamo Aleandro, Giambattista Egnazio, and Lazzaro Bonamico, and appealed to Francis I in favour of Michelangelo. He also corresponded with Pietro Bembo, Jacopo Sadoleto, Germain de Brie, and Erasmus, and continued his philological and archeological research. He even began studying Hebrew, presumably with Elias Levita. From May 1530 Baïf employed as his secretary Pierre Bunel of Toulouse. In February 1532 his illegitimate son, Jean-Antoine, was born, a future poet of the Pléiade to whose education Baïf always paid careful attention, entrusting him to excellent tutors such as Charles Estienne and Jacques Toussain. At the beginning of 1534 Baïf was recalled from Venice at his own request. Returning to Paris, he set up house in the suburb of Saint-Marceau, keeping his son with him. On 17 November 1530 he had been appointed clerical councillor in the Parlement. In 1538 he was named master of requests in the royal household. In 1540 he was sent to the confere