Null Set of 5 books
- PIERRE DE RONSARD (1524-1585), "Les Amours", three-volume …

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Set of 5 books - PIERRE DE RONSARD (1524-1585), "Les Amours", three-volume edition on lana wove paper watermarked sefer with leopard, Sefer edition, 1974-1975 (Certificate of authenticity for volume 3 justifying copy 854/1910) - JOACHIM DU BELLAY (1522-1560), "Les Sonnets", two-volume edition on lana vellum with leopard sefer watermark (certified number 282/1910) H_28 cm ; W_21 cm

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Set of 5 books - PIERRE DE RONSARD (1524-1585), "Les Amours", three-volume edition on lana wove paper watermarked sefer with leopard, Sefer edition, 1974-1975 (Certificate of authenticity for volume 3 justifying copy 854/1910) - JOACHIM DU BELLAY (1522-1560), "Les Sonnets", two-volume edition on lana vellum with leopard sefer watermark (certified number 282/1910) H_28 cm ; W_21 cm

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Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Pierre de RONSARD. Les Amours... Ensemble le cinquiesme de ses Odes. In-8, red morocco, gilt foliate central medallion on covers, 5-nerved spine decorated in the same style, interior lace, gilt edges ( Gruel). Barbier, MBP, II-9 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-418. 239-(32 f.) / a-p8, A-D8 / 105 x 166 mm. Extremely rare first edition. Pierre de Ronsard, born near Vendôme in 1524, is one of the major literary figures of the 16th century, and, along with the Pléiade brigade of poets he led, the driving force behind the poetic revival of the French language. Well-educated, he was attached as a page to several princes, including James V of Scotland and the future Henry II, but, deafened by illness at the age of 18, he abandoned the diplomatic career open to him to devote himself to poetry. He studied alongside Baïf under Jean Dorat, and inspired Du Bellay to write his manifesto Defense et illustration de la langue françoise. He fell in love with a young girl whom he named Cassandre, and composed numerous sonnets for her. Showered with praise, praised as the leader of a new school breathing variety, brilliance and new rhythms into poetry, he gathered around him, under the name Pléiade, Baïf, Du Bellay, Thyard, Jodelle, Belleau, Dorat and Pelletier Du Mans. He died in 1585. The collection of Amours consists of 184 sonnets inspired by his love for Cassandre, followed by the fifth book of Odes and the Bacchanales, a versified account of an excursion Dorat made with his pupils to Arcueil. The last 32 leaves contain notated music composed by Pierre Certon, Claude Goudimel, Marc-Antoine de Muret and Clément Janequin. The edition is decorated with antique portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre facing each other, surmounted by verses by Baïf. This is the first time these portraits have appeared. A very fine copy. Book D restored at foot and in inner margin.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Pierre de RONSARD. Les Derniers vers de Pierre de Ronsard, gentilhomme Vendomois. Booklet in-4, bradel vellum ( 19th century binding). Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-455. 13 / A-B4 (last blank) / 144 x 215 mm. First edition published by Claude Binet. Second edition copy with page 14 blank and containing an epistle by Claude Binet entitled A la noble et vertueuse compagnie qui a honoré les obseques de Monsieur de Ronsard, Prince des Poëtes François. Buon's mark on title and portrait of Ronsard on verso. A copy in which a dozen blank leaves have been bound to thicken the binding. Binding foxed, leaves a little browned.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Pierre de RONSARD. Elegie sur les troubles d'Amboise. 1560. Booklet in-4, modern vellum. Barbier, Discours, 1 et seq. // Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-437. (6 f.) / A4, B2 / 164 x 225 mm. Very rare first separate edition of this work, which marks the birth the birth of a patriotic and committed literature, unknown before Ronsard (Barbier). The text had previously appeared in the first collective edition of his works, in the Cinquième livre des Poèmes. Apart from typographical errors that were corrected in later editions, the importance of this edition is revealed by verse 7 on folio A2: the word livres will later be replaced by the word arms. As the enemy seduced by books The people devoye who falsely follow him We must confuse them by arguing with books With books to assail him, with books to answer him which will become: You have to confuse him by arguing over books With weapons to assail him, with weapons to answer him. This hardening of tone was prompted by the Vassy massacre that had just taken place, and by the reactions of indignant Protestants. Ronsard resolutely sided with the king, encouraging him to fight his enemies not with books, but with arms. Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, in his Bibliographie des discours politiques de Ronsard, has identified three different editions, giving numerous details to help identify them. The present copy contains all the first printing remarks noted by Barbier-Mueller on the copy in the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève. This primitive state of the Élégie sur les troubles d'Amboise is extremely rare. Barbier thought the Geneva library copy was unique. There are now two!

Estim. 20 - 30 EUR

Four books in-24 early XXth century, Pierre de Ronsard "Poésies", Théodore Botrel "Chansons", Charles Baudelaire "Le Spleen de Paris", Alfred de Musset "Les nuits". 10 x 7 cm

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