Null MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME, Queen of Navarre
L'Heptameron ou histoire des amans…

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MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME, Queen of Navarre L'Heptameron ou histoire des amans fortunez des nouvelles de très illustre et très excellente Princesse Marguerite de Valois, royne de Navarre. Remis en son vray ordre, conçus au paravant en sa première impression: et dédié à très illustre et très vertueuse Princesse Jeanne, Reyne de Navarre, par Claude Gruget Parisien. Lyon, Cluquemin, 1572. In-16: 811pp, 6f (tables). Nineteenth century midnight blue morocco signed THIBARON-JOLY, ornate ribbed spine, triple fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, inner gilt garland, very slight rubbing, gilt edges. A very fine copy. Rare 16th-century Lyon edition in in-16 format, based on the text of 1559 and 1560, of which we are looking for well-preserved copies, which is the case of this one. L'Heptaméron, an unfinished, posthumous collection by Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême (1492-1549), sister of François I and Queen of Navarre through her marriage to Henri II d'Albret, consists of seventy-two short stories, narrated and discussed by different characters. Love (carnal love, deception and mischief) is the main subject of the work. The saucy tales of debauched monks and priests bear witness not only to medieval anticlericalism, but also to Marguerite's evangelical thinking. The debate over the perfect lover is also addressed (Tchemerzine IV, 377)(Brunet III, 1416). Provenances: Ex-libris printed in color with the arms of the Massari-Zavaglia family and ex-libris printed in black of the Yves Cazaux library.

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MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME, Queen of Navarre L'Heptameron ou histoire des amans fortunez des nouvelles de très illustre et très excellente Princesse Marguerite de Valois, royne de Navarre. Remis en son vray ordre, conçus au paravant en sa première impression: et dédié à très illustre et très vertueuse Princesse Jeanne, Reyne de Navarre, par Claude Gruget Parisien. Lyon, Cluquemin, 1572. In-16: 811pp, 6f (tables). Nineteenth century midnight blue morocco signed THIBARON-JOLY, ornate ribbed spine, triple fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, inner gilt garland, very slight rubbing, gilt edges. A very fine copy. Rare 16th-century Lyon edition in in-16 format, based on the text of 1559 and 1560, of which we are looking for well-preserved copies, which is the case of this one. L'Heptaméron, an unfinished, posthumous collection by Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême (1492-1549), sister of François I and Queen of Navarre through her marriage to Henri II d'Albret, consists of seventy-two short stories, narrated and discussed by different characters. Love (carnal love, deception and mischief) is the main subject of the work. The saucy tales of debauched monks and priests bear witness not only to medieval anticlericalism, but also to Marguerite's evangelical thinking. The debate over the perfect lover is also addressed (Tchemerzine IV, 377)(Brunet III, 1416). Provenances: Ex-libris printed in color with the arms of the Massari-Zavaglia family and ex-libris printed in black of the Yves Cazaux library.

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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. L'Heptaméron des Nouvelles de très haute et très illustre Marguerite d'Angoulême, reine de Navarre. Publié sur les manuscrits par les soins et avec les notes de Le Roux de Lincy et A. de Montaiglon. Paris, Auguste Eudes, 1880. 4 volumes in-8. Bound in full midnight-blue morocco, spines richly decorated with fillets and fleurons, quintuple framing of gilt fillets on the boards with fleurons in the corners, double gilt fillet on the edges, interior lace, gilt head (binding signed Thierry). Ex libris.Renato Garducci Prato. Small edition on laid paper. Illustrated with engraved title, frontispiece, chromolithograph, double-page letter facsimile, 76 hors-texte figures, 74 vignettes and 73 culs-de-lampe, all after Freudenberg, Dunter and Charles Lepec, engraved by Eichler, de Longueil, J. Le Roy and Adrien Nargeot. Vicaire V-511. A very fine, finely bound copy.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. L'Heptameron des Nouvelles de tresillustre et tresexcellente Princesse Marguerite de Valois, Royne de Navarre. In-4, contemporary vellum, laces (renewed and missing). Brunet, III-1416 // De Backer 247 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, IV-378. (4 f.)-210 f. (misc. 212)-(2 f.) / ã4, a-z4, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4 / 152 x 232 mm. Third edition, rare. This is the second to contain all 72 short stories. Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême, elder sister of François I, was born in 1492 and, like him, was raised at the court of Louis XII. Her first marriage was to Charles IV of Alençon. Widowed on his death shortly after the disaster of Pavia, she subsequently married Henri II d'Albret, becoming Queen of Navarre. At the French court, and later at the court of Navarre, she surrounded herself with artists, and was a particular patron of writers, notwithstanding the religious quarrels that troubled the period. Cultured and well-educated, she was herself a successful practitioner of literature and poetry, including her Heptaméron and her Marguerites are her most famous collections. She died in 1547. An early form of the Heptaméron appeared anonymously in 1558 under the title of Histoires des Amans fortunez and contained just 67 short stories. In 1559, Claude Gruget published a second edition, with five additional short stories and the definitive title of Heptaméron. A third edition, our own, appeared the following year, shared by three booksellers, Gilles Gilles, Vincent Sertenas and Benoist Prevost. It is illustrated with a handsome engraved title and large, beautifully ornamented lettering. Vellum soiled, stained, endpapers and laces renewed. Small holes in the title reaching the first 10 leaves, wetness in quires K and X and leaves S4 and T1, angular loss to leaf G1, and leaves D1 and D4 1.5 cm shorter in the lower margin. Provenance: B. de Wassenaer (handwritten bookplate on title), Frédéric, baron de Keverberg, château de Kessel (handwritten bookplate dated 1856 on verso of title).

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE. Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, tres tresillustre Royne de Navarre. - Suyte des Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses. Ibid, id, 1547. 2 volumes in-8, prairie-green glazed calf speckled with gold, gilt fillet framing, spines with 5 nerves similarly decorated, interior roulette, gilt edges ( P. Bozerian jeune). Brunet, III-1414 // Cartier, Tournes, no. 105 // Cioranescu, 14075-14076 // De Backer, 243 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, IV-366. I. 541-(1 f.) / a-z8, A-L8 // II. 342-(1 f.) / a-x8, y4 / 95 x 164 mm. Highly sought-after first edition. The Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses were published by Simon Silvius, known as Jean de La Haye, esquire and valet de chambre to the Queen, who signed the Epistre liminaire et à qui est accordé le privilège. The second volume is illustrated with 11 woodcuts in the text by Bernard Salomon, known as Petit Bernard, 10 of which illustrate the poem La Coche. The edition, printed in italics, is adorned with woodcuts, lettering and fleurons.

Starting price 100 EUR

Marguerite COURTIN, chambermaid to Queen Henriette. Marguerite was chambermaid to Queen Henriette Marie de France, wife of King Charles I of England and daughter of French King Henri IV. She married Jacques de Lux de Vantelet, Chevalier, conseiller et maître d'hôtel ordinaire du Roi et Madame sœur de Sa Majesté, gentilhomme huissier de la Chambre privée de la Reine de la Grande-Bretagne, on June 7, 1617 - Autograph signed on January 8, 1653. Acknowledgement of a payment receipt of 500 livres from M. de Florisel. Signed "Marguerite Courtin".

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