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293 - [17TH-CENTURY THEATRE]. A collection of 13 plays in-12.
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[17TH-CENTURY THEATRE]. A collection of 13 plays in-12. 1) DU RYER. Themistocles. Tragicomedy. Based on the copy printed in Paris, 1649. Red morocco leather, gilt central motif, fleurons at the corners, spine decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt interior lace, gilt edges (Carayon). Elzevirian edition. Beautiful binding. 2) DU RYER. Alcioneé, or The Battle of Honour and Love. Based on the copy printed in Paris, 1663. Same binding as the previous volume. 3) DU RYER. Nitocris, Queen of Babylon. Tragicomedy. Ibid., 1650. Same binding as the previous two. 4) BOURSAULT (Edme). *Les Nicandres, or the Liars Who Do Not Lie*. Comedy. Paris, Pepingué, 1665. Purple morocco, double gold thread binding, flourishes at the corners, decorated spine, gilt edges. Very rare first edition. One of Boursault’s earliest plays. Ex-libris by Jules Couet. Beautiful 19th-century binding, unsigned. 5) BOISROBERT (François LE METEL de). La Folle gageure, or the entertainments of the Countess of Pembroc. Paris, Courbé, 1654. Contemporary vellum, modern title label on the spine. 6) PRADON. Regulus. Tragedy. Paris, Guillaín, 1688. Contemporary vellum. 7) DU PERCHE (Jacques CROSNIER, known as). *Les Intrigues de la Vieille Tour*. Rouen, Besongne, (1640). Green Jansenist morocco, gilt interior lace, gilt edges (Lortic). First edition of this play by the Norman actor. Cioranescu 27536. 8) [COLONIA (Dominique de)]. Jovien. Tragedy. Lyon, Jacques Guerrier, 1696. Brown calfskin, gilt thread edging, decorated spine, gilt interior lace, gilt edges (19th-century binding). First edition. Merland-Parguez. Repert. Lyon, Part 4, p. 139. Sommervogel II, 1322 9) GILBERT (Gabriel). The Loves of Diana and Endymion. Printed at Rouen and sold in Paris, G. de Luynes, 1661. Brown calfskin with period decoration. Bound together  three other works by the same author: *Chresphonte, or the Return of the Heraclids to the Peloponnese*. Id., 1659. – *Arie and Petus, or the Loves of Nero*. Id., 1660. – *Telephonte*, a tragicomedy. Paris, Quinet, 1643. From the Louis Jouvet library, with bookplate. 10) LA FOSSE (Antoine de). Theseus. Tragedy. Paris, Ribou, 1700. Contemporary vellum. First edition. 11) THULLIN. The Miraculous Recognition of Daphnis and Cloris, Their Love, Adventures and Marriage. All set out as a comedy... Paris, Bessin, 1628. 18th-century marbled calfskin. First edition. Cioranescu 64657. 12) LA GRANGE-CHANCEL (François-Joseph de). The Works of Mr Delagrange. Paris, Ribou, 1699. Contemporary brown calfskin. A collection of four plays, with separate titles and pagination:  Meleagre: A Tragedy. – Oreste and Pilade. – Adherbal, King of Numidia. – Athenaïs. 13) CHEVALIER (Jean SIMONIN, known as). Le Cartel de guillot, or The Ridiculous Duel. The Hague, Moetjens, 1682. 19th-century vellum, coats of arms on the covers. Chevalier, the author of numerous plays, was an actor at the Théâtre du Marais. A copy bearing the coat of arms of Count Joseph de Lagondie, with an ex-libris.
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