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43 - DU PERRET. *La Cour d’Amour, ou les Bergers galans*: Dedicat…
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DU PERRET. *La Cour d’Amour, ou les Bergers galans*: Dedicated to Her Royal Highness Mademoiselle. Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1667. 2 volumes in-8, brown calfskin, gilt coat of arms on the covers, decorated spines, marbled edges (contemporary binding). 11 unnumbered folios, 520 pp., 2 folios of privilege – 3 folios, 533 pp., 1 folio errata. A very rare first edition, particularly when complete with the 7 full-page illustrations engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc. See Maxime Préaud, *Fonds Français*. A pastoral novel in the style of *L’Astrée*. Du Perret, about whom no biographical information is known, states in the preface that he set his shepherds in the age of Augustus in his native Provence ‘at the foot of a great number of high rocks which lie one hundred and fifty stadia from the ancient and famous Massilia…’.  A copy bearing the coat of arms of Louis-Urbain Le Fèvre de Caumartin (1653–1720). Olivier 651 fer 4 –  Maxime Préaud. Seb. Le Clerc. French Collection, vol. 2, nos. 1512–1518. – Lever, p. 124 – Gay I, 744 – Cioranescu 27567.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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