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81 - PUGET DE LA SERRE (Jean). *The Romance of the Court of Bruss…
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PUGET DE LA SERRE (Jean). *The Romance of the Court of Brussels, or the Adventures of the Bravest Knights Who Ever Lived and the Fairest Ladies in the World*. Printed at Spa and at Aix in Germany, by Jean Tournay, 1628. In-8, black morocco, gilt fillet binding, gilt coats of arms on the covers, spine decorated with gilt sprigs and alternating coats of arms, interior lace, gilt edges (late 18th-century binding). Frontispiece, 8 unnumbered leaves, 726 pp., 1 errata leaf. An extremely rare first edition of this novel, in which the principal figures of the Belgian nobility of the time appear under assumed names: the Duchess of Croÿ, the Duchess of Aerschot, the Prince of Chimay… “This novel, written in a quintessential style,” says *Le Bibliophile Belge*, “is intriguing. In it, the author features the leading figures of the Belgian nobility of the time under names analogous to those in the *Dictionnaire des Précieuses*, which, however, did not yet exist.”  A complete copy featuring the superb frontispiece engraved by J. Valdor after Gérard Douffet, which is missing from almost all known copies. Without the 2 ff. of key plates. A copy bound with the coat of arms and armorial emblems of the Countess of Verrue. From the libraries of Baron Warrenghein, with ex-libris; and of Count Octave de Béhague (1880, I, no. 972). Olivier pl. 79 – Drujon. Les livres à clef. II, 855 – De Backer 768 – Lever p. 374 – Brunet III, 860.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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