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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