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COTIN, Charles - Oeuvres galantes in prose and verse.
See original version (French)
243
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COTIN, Charles - Oeuvres galantes in prose and verse.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200
Voluntary lot
Description
COTIN, Charles - Oeuvres galantes in prose and verse. Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1663. In-12, (8) ff. including frontispiece, 476 pp, paper a little yellowed, contemporary gran. brown calf, spine ribbed with grotesque decoration, remaining headband.
DE BACKER 844: ''First edition of this collection combining the verse and prose works of Abbé Cotin with numerous gallant letters from the beaux-esprits of the period. Among these verses are the famous Sonnet à Mademoiselle de Longueville sur sa fièvre quarte and the madrigal Sur un carrosse de couleur amaranthe, which were ridiculed by Molière.''
See original version (French)
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