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Guy de LA GARDE. L'Histoire et description du Phoenix. Composé a l'honneur et louange de treshaute & tres tresillustre princesse, Madame Marguerite de France, sœur unique du Roy. In-8, red jansenist morocco, 5-ribbed spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Godillot). Brunet, III-766 // Rothschild, IV-2880. (44 f.) / A-E8, F4 / 95 x 154 mm. A very rare first edition according to Brunet, described at length by Émile Picot in the Rothschild catalog. The author is a French poet born in Provence around 1520 who was, according to the title page, escuier de Chambonas, Lieutenant of the Senechal de Provence at the siege of Arles. With his fine mind, he was welcomed at the court of François I, where he became particularly attached to Princess Marguerite, for whom he composed these poems. The collection is a curious mixture of poems addressed to Marguerite interspersed with Italian stanzas by Anto Buada Armanazico, two Latin epigrams by Nicolas Bergeron, two Greek distichs by Jean Mercier, a Hebrew epigram by Jean Mercier translated into Latin by La Garde..., all with several anagrams and two engravings of a phoenix, one of which is repeated twice. A fine copy. The copy has been washed and some margins restored. Book A is printed on a thicker paper, probably due to a slightly stronger sizing.
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Guy de LA GARDE. L'Histoire et description du Phoenix. Composé a l'honneur et louange de treshaute & tres tresillustre princesse, Madame Marguerite de France, sœur unique du Roy. In-8, red jansenist morocco, 5-ribbed spine, interior lace, gilt edges ( Godillot). Brunet, III-766 // Rothschild, IV-2880. (44 f.) / A-E8, F4 / 95 x 154 mm. A very rare first edition according to Brunet, described at length by Émile Picot in the Rothschild catalog. The author is a French poet born in Provence around 1520 who was, according to the title page, escuier de Chambonas, Lieutenant of the Senechal de Provence at the siege of Arles. With his fine mind, he was welcomed at the court of François I, where he became particularly attached to Princess Marguerite, for whom he composed these poems. The collection is a curious mixture of poems addressed to Marguerite interspersed with Italian stanzas by Anto Buada Armanazico, two Latin epigrams by Nicolas Bergeron, two Greek distichs by Jean Mercier, a Hebrew epigram by Jean Mercier translated into Latin by La Garde..., all with several anagrams and two engravings of a phoenix, one of which is repeated twice. A fine copy. The copy has been washed and some margins restored. Book A is printed on a thicker paper, probably due to a slightly stronger sizing.
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