RONSARD (Pierre de). Discours au Roy, après son retour de Pologne en l'année 157…

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RONSARD (Pierre de).

Discours au Roy, après son retour de Pologne en l'année 1574 Lyon, Michel Jove & Jean Pillehotte, 1575. Booklet in-8, 14 pages, bottle-green chagrin, diamond-rectangle decoration with cold-stamped fillets, long gilt title on spine, gilt head (A. Lobtsein). Extremely rare first edition of this poem celebrating the accession of King Henri III, in which Ronsard recalls the young king's glorious military past. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°29. - Baudrier, II, p. 137. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°95. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 756.

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