8 - BERTAUT (Jean). Collection of the Poetic Works of Mr. Bertaut, Bishop of Sées, Abbot of Aunaie. Second edition, expanded by more than half compared to the previous printing. Paris: Lucas Breyel, 1605, 8 folios with title page and 344 folios numbered. — A collection of several love poems. Latest edition, revised and expanded. Ibid., Philippe Patisson, 1606, 6 ill. folios, 98 numbered folios. — *Panarète* or *Fantasy on the Baptismal Ceremonies of His Highness the Dauphin*. Ibid., Abel L’Angelier, 1607, 2 ill. folios and 54 ff. numbered, comprising 3 works in one in-8 volume, soft ivory vellum with an overlay, gold thread and central foliage motif, spine decorated with gold florets and gold edges. (Antique binding).

BERTAUT (Jean). Collection of the Poetic Works of Mr. Bertaut, Bishop of Sées, Abbot of Aunaie. Second edition, expanded by more than half compared to the previous printing. Paris: Lucas Breyel, 1605, 8 folios with title page and 344 folios numbered. — A collection of several love poems. Latest edition, revised and expanded. Ibid., Philippe Patisson, 1606, 6 ill. folios, 98 numbered folios. — *Panarète* or *Fantasy on the Baptismal Ceremonies of His Highness the Dauphin*. Ibid., Abel L’Angelier, 1607, 2 ill. folios and 54 ff. numbered, comprising 3 works in one in-8 volume, soft ivory vellum with an overlay, gold thread and central foliage motif, spine decorated with gold florets and gold edges. (Antique binding). A precious volume comprising the complete works of the Norman poet Jean Bertaut (1552–1611), a disciple of the poets of the Pléiade and of Desportes. It contains the second editions—partly original—of these first two works. This edition of the first *Recueil* is highly sought after because it is expanded by more than half compared to the previous printing (the original edition appeared in 1601): religious pieces, political poems, eulogies, speeches... including the long poem *Sur Le Trépas de M. de Ronsard* (pp. 134–148). This second edition of *Vers amoureux* contains fifteen new pieces compared to the original edition, published in 1602, which remains extremely rare; this collection of love poems and stanzas was published anonymously because the author was then chaplain to Queen Marie de Médicis. The third work, *Panarète*, a poem on the birth and baptism of the future Louis XIII, is a first edition of great rarity. A very fine copy, with wide margins, in its original gilt-veelin binding, perfectly preserved. The second endpaper bears the handwritten bookplate of Pierre Junca, a contemporary of the author. From the Bordes de Fortage Library (bookplate, vol. II, No. 1724). Brunet, I, 814–815 Renouard, Breyer, no. 77 Renouard, Estienne, 194 Barbier-Mueller, IV–1, nos. 31–32 Ducimetière, *Mignonne allons voir*, no. 135 Picot, Rothschild catalog, I, No. 820 Balsamo & Simonin, No. 409.