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DU BELLAY (Joachim). The French Works.
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DU BELLAY (Joachim). The French Works.
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
DU BELLAY (Joachim). The French Works. Revised, and further expanded to include several poems not previously printed. Paris, Frédéric Morel, 1569. 8 parts in one in-8 volume, gilt vellum overcover, blue fillet and fleurons on the covers, plain spine decorated with scrolls and fleurons, gilt edges (Antique binding). A rare first collected edition.
Published by Guillaume Aubert, it comprises the collection, under a single general title, of eight volumes that had appeared separately from Frédéric Morel in 1568 and 1569, each with its own pagination and title: *La Défense et illustration de la langue française*, *L’Olive et autres œuvres poétiques*, *Recueil de poésie*, *Deux livres de l’Énéide de Virgile*, *Divers poèmes*, *Les Regrets et autres œuvres poétiques*, *Divers Jeux rustiques*, *Épithalame sur le mariage de très illustre prince Philibert Emmanuel*. The first collected edition with continuous pagination dates from 1573.
This edition contains 698 pieces in total, including 93 previously unpublished works, in *The Aeneid* (9), *Various Poems* (73), *Les Regrets* (7) and *Various Rustic Games* (4).
This copy is from the second printing, with a title page updated to the date 1569 for *La Défense et illustration*, the *Collection of Poetry*, the *Aeneid*, *Various Poems* and *Les Regrets*.
The copy is set in a fine 16th-century gilt vellum binding. The handwritten ex-libris on the title page has been partially scraped away.
From the library of the Abbé Jean-Philippe Jannet (1742–1817), poet, Hellenist, translator and bibliophile, with an engraved bookplate.
Tchemerzine, III, 75b – Dumoulin, nos. 147, 166, 151, 164, 157, 162 – Barbier-Mueller, III, no. 40.
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About the sale
Antique books – Alchemy & the occult sciences
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11/04/2026 at 2:00 PM
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