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DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean - L'Ariane de Monsieur Des M…
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DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean - L'Ariane de Monsieur Des M…
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DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean - L'Ariane de Monsieur Des Marets, Conseiller du Roy, et Contrôleur Général de l'extraordinaire des Guerres. De nouveau revue, et augmentée de plusieurs Histoires par l'Autheur, et enrichie de plusieurs figures. Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1639. In-4, (5) ff. (including title and frontispiece), 775 pp, (1) p. de Privilège, (1) blank f., 17 plates included in the pagination, one plate rebacked, paper a little yellowed, several russets, contemporary gran. brown calf, coat of arms on boards, spine ribbed and decorated.
BRUNET II, 633. TCH II, 817. First edition of the illustrations by Abraham Bosse. L'Ariane is a work which forms a transition between the romances of chivalry and the historical-epic romances. Desmarets composed it in 1632, following the example of Gomberville. The novel is a mixture of historical elements, geographical knowledge and romantic adventures. All the commonplaces of romance literature - kidnapping plots, imprisonment, reconnaissance - are interwoven with the historical plot. For the 1639 edition, the most complete, Vignon produced a remarkable suite of eighteen etched drawings by Bosse. The scenes are lively, sometimes voluptuous: Mélinthe escapes from prison thanks to the sheet he is holding like a parachute; Mélinthe and his friends, disguised as brigands, kidnap Ariane and Ericine; Marcellin surprises Ariane at the bath; dramatic reconnaissance by torchlight aboard a skiff, etc. See D. Canivet, pp. 56-57. On the title page handwritten bookplate: Guyon de Sardière. It is known that the Duc de La Vallière acquired the entire library of this famous bibliophile in 1759. With the arms of Pavé de Vandoeuvre.
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