BOUCHET Jean Les Regnars transersant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde. Composées par Sébastien Brand, lequel composa la nef des folz dernièrement imprimée à Paris. Et autres plusieurs choses composées par autres facteurs.

Fairfax-Murray, 57; McFarlane, 182; Renouard-Moreau, 1504, 19; Rothschild, III, 2583 (for the first edition published only a few months earlier.

Second edition, very rare, equally undated , published only a short while after the first.
This is the first book by Jean Bouchet, who came from a family of jurists in Poitiers and enjoyed the protection of great local lords: he was attached to the house of La Trémoille.
Although undated, we can affirm that this volume was printed between 1503 and 1504 according to the first verses of the author, who was born in Poitiers in 1476 and presents himself as follows:

“Jeune suis et nay pas des ans trente
Non vingt et huyt, touteffoys ie me vante
Davoir plus veu que ie ne dy ne compte”.

[I am a young lad, just under 30, not quite28 anymore / I have pride to have lived a fuller life than other people of my age].

The book is illustrated with 42 magnificent woodcuts: the first series of 11 woodcuts was executed especially for this book. The other woodcuts had already been used by Vérard for other publications.
Title with old  expert restoration at the top and in the corner, touching some letters, however a fine copy with wide margins, some with deckle edges.

Provenance: Ch. Butler, Edouard Rahir (his collection sale, II, n° 268), Silvain Brunschwig (28 March 1955, n° 340), Paul Harth, (20 November 1985, n° 24); Otto Schäfer (27 June 1995, n° 40).