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RECUEIL DES PLUS BEAUX VERS - de Messieurs de Malherbe, Raca…
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320
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RECUEIL DES PLUS BEAUX VERS - de Messieurs de Malherbe, Raca…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
RECUEIL DES PLUS BEAUX VERS - de Messieurs de Malherbe, Racan, Maynard, Bois-Robert, Monfuron, Lingendes, Touvant, Motin De Lestoile et autres divers auteurs des plus fameux esprits de la Cour. Revueuz, corrigez & augmentez. Paris, Pierre Mettayer, 1638. Pet. in-8, XXVI, 930 pp, yellowed paper, some light spotting, russeting, small worm-gallery on margins, sometimes trimmed short at head, contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, small epidermis.
LACHÈVRE I, 69. Similar to the 1630 collection, the last published by Toussaint du Bray, it contains 518 pieces. One of the first to have adopted the classification by author. It thus includes poems by Malherbe (pp. 1-150), Racan (pp. 151-265), Maynard (pp. 266-495), Boisrobert (pp. 497-592); pages containing poems by Monfuron, Lingendes, Touvant, Motin (pp. 730-833), etc. follow. Bookplate of Pierre Louis Baudot (1760-1819), Burgundian numismatist and archaeologist, ms. bookplate of the historian Pierre-Henri Ribault de Laugardière (Nontron 1814-1886), of Mgr le Cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois, Archbishop of Rouen.
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