PUBLISHED IN 1581, THIS IS A RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ON ETYMOLOGY OF FRENCH LANGUAGE FROM THE GREEK LANGUAGE.  A BEAUTIFUL SUPERBLY PRESERVED ANTIQUE BOOK.

The full title of the book is, "Celt'-hellenisme, ou, etymologic des mots francois tirez du graec. Plus. Preuves en general de la descente de nostre langue," which translates to, "Celt'-Hellenism, or, etymology of the French words drawn from the Greek. More. Proofs in general of the descent of our language"  Authored by Leon Trippault, published in 1581 by Eloy Gibier, Orleans.  Overall in SUPERB CONDITION, as seen in listing photo.  Very solid leather boards and binding, clear gilt spine titling, gilt page edges but which appear to have marbled edges beneath the gilt - see listing photo where the pages are fanned out. INTERESTING BOOKPLATE OF ANATOLE BASSEVILLE.  Wikimedia Commons dates this heraldic bookplate to 1563.  It has been provided as the provenance as the bookplate found in, , "Catalogue des Livres rares, singuliers et très-bien conditionnés, de feu le C. Bonnier, Ministre plénipotentiaire de la République françoise, au Congrès de Rastadt, dont la Vente se fera en la Salle du citoyen Sylvestre. Ange Elisabeth Louis Antoine AUCTION CATALOGUE: BONNIER D'ALCO". This bookplate is seen in Alamy and other sites. Marble endpapers, 312 incredibly well preserved pages with a portrait near the beginning pages (see listing photo), and a final page engraving (see listing photos) as the only illustrations in the book.  In addition the first free endpaper, with the marble decoration on one side, there are three more contemporary blank endpapers front and back.  There is a light to moderate foxing background seen in many of the interior pages, others are very clear with little to no such foxing.  There is a loose red bookmark ribbon in the book, and there was a stray red/orange marking in the book - see listing photo for example.

The entire content of this book has been scanned in online, at NUMELYO Bibliotheque Numerique de Lyon.  This scanned version does not include the portrait found in this book (shown in listing photo).  Also, it did not have the smaller handwritten text found in the book of this listing on page 225.  Listing photos show this additional handwritten text.  It appears to be a new entry for the word, NORMANDS.  

This book is found in several libraries worldwide.  There are reprints but no 1581 copies currently online.  There was one auction result I could find for this 1581 book (that auction result listing suggested that the First Edition of the book was published in 1580, and that the 1581 book is the Second Edition), and another antique 1577 book by Leon Trippault, Dictionnaire François-Grec, online for sale at over $8000.  There are other books in Worldcat listing Leon Trippault as author, including this one published in 1570:  "Coustumes generales, des bailliage, et preuosté d'Orleans, & ressorts d'iceux : reueuës, corrigées, & de nouueau augmentées d'annotations, auec le proces verbal.", and this one published in 1621:  "L'histoire et discours au vray du siege qui fut mis devant la ville d'Orleans par les Anglois, le mardy XII. jour d'octobre, MCCCCXXVIII. regnant alors Charles VII. roy de France: contenant toutes les saillies, assauts, escrmouches & autres particularitez notables, qui de jour en jour y surent faictes avec la venue de Jeanne la Pucelle, & comment par grace divine, & force d'armes, elle fist lever le siege de devant aux Anglois .. ".  

Here is a brief bio on Leon Trippault focusing on his etymology work, found online:

"Léon Trippault, sieur de Bardis, was a lawyer in Orléans and one of the first authors to contemplate the origin of the French language; he was convinced of the Greek origin of French and tried to prove it through a series of works including this dictionary in which he traces French words back to Greek. His thesis had its basis in the myth that France’s first kings came from Greece, or that France was named for Francion, a son of Hector, who escaped the sack of Troy. Henri Estienne similarly looked for Greek origins for the French language, assimilating the glory of Classical Athens with sixteenth-century France."

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