DES PÉRIERS (Bonaventure)

♦ Recueil des œuvres. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1544. In-8, red morocco, triple fillet, coat of arms in the center of the boards, ornate spine, red morocco lining decorated with a small right lace, edges gilt on marble (Binding circa 1700). First edition, except for one piece : La Pronostication, published separately in 1537. This collection was published by Antoine du Moulin after the death of Bonaventure des Périers, poet and valet to Queen Marguerite de Navarre, sister of François I. (Cartier, n°19.) It consists of a Discours de la queste d'amytié dict Lysis de Platon in prose, dedicated to Marguerite de Navarre, followed by its version in verse, Voyage de Lyon à Nostre Dame de Lisle (l'île Barbe), 1532, and numerous pieces of verse including a Chant des vendanges dedicated to Clément Marot. The penultimate leaf contains a notice from the printer to the printers, in which Jean de Tournes speaks out against counterfeiters. A fine copy. Delightful and very precious copy in a lined morocco binding attributable to Boyet, with the arms of the Count of Hoym. It appears in the catalog of his sale of 1738, under n°2992. Like all the great collections of the time, the library of the Count of Hoym (1694-1736), ambassador of Saxe-Poland in France and great bibliophile of his time, embraced the universality of human knowledge; but it is especially the part of the belles-lettres which had received the preference of the collector: For his beautiful bindings, the bibliophile called upon Du Seuil, Padeloup and Boyet, while his common bindings were made by Jacques Girou, who was syndic of the bookbinders in 1718: [....] what the present and future amateurs must know and will always know the most of gratitude to the count of Hoym, it is the taste and the care that he brought to the binding of his books (cf. Pichon, Vie du comte d'Hoym, 1880). From the libraries of Pixérécourt (1838, n°618), Pichon (1869, n°506) and La Roche Lacarelle (1888, n°181). Heavy foxing on the endpapers, on the title and on the last leaf.