Null [Michel d'AMBOISE]. Antonio Phileremo FREGOSO.

Le Ris de Democrite, et le …

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[Michel d'AMBOISE]. Antonio Phileremo FREGOSO. Le Ris de Democrite, et le pleur de Heraclite, philosophes sur les follies, & miseres de ce monde... interpretee en rime Françoise par Michel d'Amboyse. In-8, brown calf, decorated in the Du Seuil style with triple cold fillet, gilded fleurons at the corners and central cold fleuron, spine with 5 nerves ( contemporary binding). Brunet, I-224 // Cionarescu, 2446 // De Backer 259. 100 f. / A-M8, N4 / 109 x 169 mm. First edition of Michel d'Amboise's translation. The edition was shared with Arnoul L'Angelier, and the titles bear the name of one or the other. Fregoso presents Democritus, who laughs at certain human categories - adulterous wives, bankers, hunters, avaricious people, love-struck lovers, people of war - while Heraclitus weeps over the miseries of the world. Corrozet mark on last leaf. Old restored binding with defects, wear and stains, repaired angular loss to title and several leaves, renewed endpapers.

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[Michel d'AMBOISE]. Antonio Phileremo FREGOSO. Le Ris de Democrite, et le pleur de Heraclite, philosophes sur les follies, & miseres de ce monde... interpretee en rime Françoise par Michel d'Amboyse. In-8, brown calf, decorated in the Du Seuil style with triple cold fillet, gilded fleurons at the corners and central cold fleuron, spine with 5 nerves ( contemporary binding). Brunet, I-224 // Cionarescu, 2446 // De Backer 259. 100 f. / A-M8, N4 / 109 x 169 mm. First edition of Michel d'Amboise's translation. The edition was shared with Arnoul L'Angelier, and the titles bear the name of one or the other. Fregoso presents Democritus, who laughs at certain human categories - adulterous wives, bankers, hunters, avaricious people, love-struck lovers, people of war - while Heraclitus weeps over the miseries of the world. Corrozet mark on last leaf. Old restored binding with defects, wear and stains, repaired angular loss to title and several leaves, renewed endpapers.

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1) [ROBBÉ DE BEAUVESET (Pierre-Honoré)]: Mon odyssée ou le journal de mon retour de Saintonge. Poëme à Chloé. The Hague, 1760, 125 pages + 4 t.p. figures. Bound with 2) [WATELET (Claude-Henri)]. Silvie. London [Paris, Prault], 1743, 1 title frontispiece-78 pages + 8 figures h.t. 9.5 by 16 cm. Full streaked black morocco, 5-rib spine, rich inner lace, double fillet on edges, all edges gilt (binding signed POUILLET). Slight scratches on the boards, a bump on one cut. Otherwise very good condition for this sober but stylish binding. Reunion of two charming volumes with engraved figures by Cochin. 1) First edition. C. Michel, Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe s., n° 191. "Robbé asked his uncle Despille for four illustrations and had them engraved by their friend Cochin. The four drawings attributed without convincing reason to Cochin are in the Louvre." (C. Michel). In satirical verse, the author recounts his picaresque adventures on the road from Jonzac to Orléans, via Saintes, Chinon, Tours, Amboise and Blois. The third song features an apparition of Rabelais, who invites the author to pay him a visit. 2) First edition. C. Michel, Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe s., no. 195. "Four vignettes of children's games, drawn by Pierre, engraved by Cochin fils. Nine in-8 size prints, 1 frontispiece and 8 plates drawn by M. Pierre, eight of which etched by M. Watelet, to which M. Cochin fils gave a few touches in different places on the varnish, before making them bite, & then made a few repeats with the burin in the places missed by the etching. The ninth print, La timidité d'Aminte, is engraved entirely by Cochin fils." (C. Michel). Roman à clef by an author who was a collaborator of the Encyclopédie.

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