59 - [CANTENAC (Jean BENECH DE)].

[CANTENAC (Jean BENECH DE)]. • New Poems, and Other Gallant Works. •• Selected and Gallant Letters. Paris: Theodore Girard, 1665 & 1664. 2 works in one in-12 volume, brown calfskin, gilt coat of arms in the center of the covers, decorated ribbed spine (late 17th-century binding). •• “Revised and expanded in this second edition.” A frontispiece title page engraved by SPIRINX; printer’s mark on the first title page. Bound between the privilege and the errata page is the poem sometimes attributed to Corneille: *L’Occasion perdue recouverte*. “Revised, corrected, and expanded by the Author.” (14 pp.). From the libraries of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1678–1737), with coat of arms on the covers, and Balthazar Henry de Fourcy, with bookplates. Faded wet stamp on the first title page and cut out on the second (with restoration); bibliographic annotations on the flyleaf. COPY BEARING THE COAT OF ARMS OF LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON (1678–1737), COUNT OF TOULOUSE IN 1681, ADMIRAL OF FRANCE IN 1683, AND DUKE OF PENTHIEVRE IN 1697, LEGITIMATE SON OF LOUIS XIV.