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Wisdom, book one. - La Muse céleste. Tours…

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BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François). Wisdom, book one. - La Muse céleste. Tours, Jamet Mettayer, 1593. 2 works in a small in-12 volume, red morocco, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Niédrée). First edition of the first book of La Sagesse, divided into 14 considerations and dealing with the means of reaching the perfect state of living well, remedying afflictions, embracing constancy, and finding complete contentment according to the divine institution. La Muse céleste, a collection of spiritual songs and paraphrases of the psalms, ending with a short didactic poem in six songs entitled De l'âme et de ses excellences, had first appeared ten years earlier in Appréhensions spirituelles... (1583). Engraved armorial bookplate Caroli Gastaldi. Spine unstained, small dents on first cover. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, p. 103. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°59-60.

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BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François). Wisdom, book one. - La Muse céleste. Tours, Jamet Mettayer, 1593. 2 works in a small in-12 volume, red morocco, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Niédrée). First edition of the first book of La Sagesse, divided into 14 considerations and dealing with the means of reaching the perfect state of living well, remedying afflictions, embracing constancy, and finding complete contentment according to the divine institution. La Muse céleste, a collection of spiritual songs and paraphrases of the psalms, ending with a short didactic poem in six songs entitled De l'âme et de ses excellences, had first appeared ten years earlier in Appréhensions spirituelles... (1583). Engraved armorial bookplate Caroli Gastaldi. Spine unstained, small dents on first cover. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, p. 103. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°59-60.

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[BÉROALDE de VIERVILLE (François). Le Moyen de parvenir, containing the reason for all that has been, is & will be. Last edition. Exactement corrigée, & augmentée d'une Table des matières. Nulle part [Hollande], sn, 1000700407 [1747]. 2 volumes in-12, brown half calf spotted with small corners, title and tomaison pages (contemporary binding). Several restorations to bindings. Minor gnawing to first endpapers of volume I. Good Dutch edition of this "sottisier". Le Moyen de parvenir is a repertory of light-hearted tales and quips from which not only Tabarin and the pseudo-Bruscambille, but also d'Aubigné in his Baron de Faeneste, and Sorel in his Francion, have drawn. "The Moyen de parvenir is generally attributed to François Beroalde de Verville, author of the various works we have just described, which are now almost forgotten; in fact, Beroalde declared himself to be its father on page 461 of his Palais des Curieux printed in 1612 (see below), while disavowing, out of caution, the surreptitious copies that had spread. Despite this, several modern critics dispute his authorship of the book, giving it to either Fr. Rabelais or Henri Estienne, from whom Beroalde did in fact frequently borrow (especially from the latter's Apologie pour Hérodote, which, incidentally, had died before Beroalde's book was published). For his part, the author of Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque, volume P., p. 163, doubts that "this collection of facetiae and tales, sometimes very pleasing and always very free, is actually by Beroalde, canon of Tours. Beroalde's name is found at the head of a book entitled du Moyen de parvenir. The book in question is little known, and neither La Monnoye nor P. Niceron have mentioned it. Its title is De la Sagesse [...] But what is perhaps even less well known than this last work is the first edition of the famous Moyen de parvenir. [...] It is to be regretted that La Monnoye, to whom we owe a good notice on Beroalde's collection, did not examine the first editions, which were more readily available in his time than they are today. Ex-libris JM. (Brunet I 806 for the 1732 edition; Tchemerzine II, 215.)

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Circular mahogany pedestal table on three blackened wood legs with eagle heads. and finished with claws joined by a brace. Stamped by François-Ignace PAPST and old label "... ROUEN... CAEN". First third of the 19th century. H. 69 cm - Diam: 83 cm Accents and cracks in the veneer. François-Ignace Papst - Cabinetmaker from Germany. Mastered on September 3, 1785. He worked at cour Saint-Joseph in rue de Charonne, then in rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. He supplied the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne.

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[BÉROALDE de VIERVILLE (François). Le Moyen de parvenir. Nouvelle édition, corrigée de diverses fautes qui n'y étoient point & augmentée de plusieurs autres. Chinon [Holland], De l'imprimerie de François Rabelais, rüe du grand Braquemart, à la Pierre Philosophale, Année Pantagruéline [c. 1700]. 2 volumes in one (continuous pagination) in-12, fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, burgundy maroon title-page, red tr. Corners slightly worn. Cutout on title page (old handwritten bookplate, not expected in text). According to bibliographers, this is an early 18th-century Dutch printing, or even, according to some, an edition to be compared with the Elzeviers collection. (Brunet I, 806.)

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