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COLLETET, Guillaume - Epigrams by Sieur Colletet.
See original version (French)
239
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COLLETET, Guillaume - Epigrams by Sieur Colletet.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
COLLETET, Guillaume - Epigrams by Sieur Colletet. Avec vn Discovrs de l'epigramme. Où il est traitté de sa premiere origine; de son vsage ancien & moderne; de son veritable caractere; de ses vertus, & de ses vices; & des qualitez requises à ceux qui s'appliquent à ce genre d'escrire. Paris, Louis Chamhoudry, 1653. Pet. in-12, (42) ff, the last one blank (Discovrs of the epigram), 476 pp, paper a little yellowed, contemporary limp vellum.
VIOLLET LEDUC 491. First edition. ''Colletet called epigram a small piece of verse which noted in a lively and piquant way an event, which consecrated any thing so as to fix it in the memory.''
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