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33 - CHAPELAIN (Jean). *La Pucelle, or France Delivered*. Heroic poem. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1656. Folio, ½ dark brown shagreen with corners, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt edges (late 19th-century binding); (26) leaves, including frontispiece, title page, and 2 portraits, 522 pp., (6) half-leaves. Light marginal water stains, a few brown spots, some pages browned; a tear at the top of one plate, with no loss, has been restored. FIRST EDITION of this famous epic poem in honor of JOAN OF ARC. A FRONTISPICE, a title vignette, headpieces, initials, and tailpieces, 2 PORTRAITS engraved by Robert NANTEUIL, one of which is after Philippe de Champaigne, and 12 BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS included in the pagination, engraved on copper by Abraham BOSSE after the painter Claude VIGNON. A PLEASANT COPY of ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE 17th century, with the book block in good condition and the engravings of fine quality. From the “Hornus” library, with an ex-libris. ¶ Tchemerzine, III-239 - Brunet, I-1794.
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CHAPELAIN (Jean). *La Pucelle, or France Delivered*. Heroic poem. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1656. Folio, ½ dark brown shagreen with corners, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt edges (late 19th-century binding); (26) leaves, including frontispiece, title page, and 2 portraits, 522 pp., (6) half-leaves. Light marginal water stains, a few brown spots, some pages browned; a tear at the top of one plate, with no loss, has been restored. FIRST EDITION of this famous epic poem in honor of JOAN OF ARC. A FRONTISPICE, a title vignette, headpieces, initials, and tailpieces, 2 PORTRAITS engraved by Robert NANTEUIL, one of which is after Philippe de Champaigne, and 12 BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS included in the pagination, engraved on copper by Abraham BOSSE after the painter Claude VIGNON. A PLEASANT COPY of ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE 17th century, with the book block in good condition and the engravings of fine quality. From the “Hornus” library, with an ex-libris. ¶ Tchemerzine, III-239 - Brunet, I-1794.
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