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Wed 22 May

PASSERAT (Jean). - Recueil des œuvres poetiques. Augmenté de plus de la moitié, outre les precedantes impressions. - Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1606. 2 works in an in-8 volume, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Capé). Posthumous editions prepared by Jean de Rougevalet, cousin of Jean Passerat, secrétaire ordinaire de la chambre du roi and greffier en chef de l'élection de Troyes. These two works are usually bound together, as is the case here: the first contains the French poetic works and the poet's Tomb, and the second, under the title Kalendae Januariae, brings together the Latin étrennes that the poet had been in the habit of sending each year since 1570 to his protector Henri de Mesmes (1532-1596), State Councillor and great art lover. The Recueil des œuvres poétiques, dedicated to the Duc de Sully, contains the great poems for which Passerat (1534-1602) was renowned: the long poems on hunting (Le Chien courant, Le Cerf d'amour and Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier), the cuckold's poem entitled Métamorphose d'un homme en oiseau, the poem on La Divinité des procès, etc. It is adorned with a fine portrait of Passerat by the Duc de Sully. It is adorned with a fine copper-engraved portrait of Passerat by Thomas de Leu. A fine copy from the library of Baron de Lassus at Valmirande, dispersed in 1955. Balsamo & Simonin, n°436-437. - Picot, Rothschild, n°713. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 329-331. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°601-602. PASSERAT see LA GUESLE

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