BIBLIOTHÈQUE POÉTIQUE DE JEAN PAUL BARBIER-MUELLER - 3e …

Lot 1 - [ANEAU (Barthélemy)]. - Imagination poétique, Traduicte en vers François, des Latins, & Grecz, par l'auteur mesme d'iceux. Horace en l'art. Lyon, Macé Bonhomme, 1552. In-8, red morocco, boards covered with a fanfare decoration ornamented with small irons, ornamented spine, interior lace, gilt edges (David). First French edition of this book of emblems, published the same month (September 1552) as the Latin edition also given by Macé Bonhomme under the title Picta Poesis. Beautifully illustrated, with 103 woodcut vignettes in the text, taken from the Latin edition, formerly attributed to Bernard Salomon, but now considered for the most part to be among the finest works by Pierre Vase, also known as Pierre Eskrich. A superb copy, in a remarkable fanfare binding signed by David. Adams, Rawles & Saunders, French Emblem Books, F.084. - Baudrier, t. X, pp. 225-226. - Landwehr, Romanic, n°117. - Mortimer, French Books, n°25 (for the Latin edition of 1552). - Praz, p. 256. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°2.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lot 2 - AUDEBERT (Germain). - Ad Sereniss. Ac. Sapientiss. Venetiarum principem Nicolaum Deponte... Venice, Aldus Manutius the Younger, 1583. In-4, fawn calf, ornate spine, green title page, small inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (Padeloup le jeune). First edition of this poem about Venice. Germain Audebert (1518-1598), who had known Théodore de Bèze during his youth in Orléans, spent a long time in Italy, where he studied hard, notably under André Alciat in Bologna. As his son Nicolas set off to follow in his footsteps in the peninsula, the poet gathered his memories and set about singing of the wonders he had seen in Venice, Rome and Naples. His first poem was dedicated to Venice. The Venetians, touched by the tribute paid to them, conferred the title of knight on the author the same day, gave him a gold chain worth 200 écus and a medal from Saint-Marc, and ordered that the poem be printed at their expense (cf. Picot, Rothschild, IV, p. 92). The poem is followed by 17 verse pieces composed by the author and his son, Louis Aleaume, the physician Raymond Massac, the Lyonnais poet André Derossant and a certain J. Stuart, a jurisconsult from Orléans. Woodcut medallion portrait of Aldus Manutius on the title. A handsome copy in a binding by Padeloup, signed with his label at the address Place Sorbonne, Paris. Some light foxing. The title, short at the foot, was adjusted to the dimensions of the other leaves at the time of binding and bears, on the added paper strip, the binder's printed label. The Aldine Press, n°955. - Renouard, Alde, p. 233. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°18.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 3 - BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de). - Chant de joie du jour des espousailles de François Roi Daufin et de Marie Roine d'Ecosse. Paris, André Wechel, 1558. Plaquette in-4, 8 pages, fawn-colored, Jansenist chagrin, gilt title across the spine, thin interior roulette, gilt edges (G. Huser). First edition of this poem composed in honor of the wedding of the dauphin François (future François II) and the young Marie Stuart, daughter of James V, King of Scotland, and Marie de Guise. Upper hinge rubbed. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°56. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°24.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 4 - BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de). - Epistre au Roy, sous le nom de la Royne sa Mere : pour l'Instruction d'un bon Roy. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1575. Booklet in-4, 6 leaves, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, double ribbed spine with gilt title throughout, interior lace, gilt edges (Godillot). First edition of this poem in which the poet uses the words of the queen mother, Catherine de Médicis, wife of Henri III, to give advice to her son, King of France in 1574 under the name Henri III. "Elle" concludes "her" poem as follows: Et si je ne me trompe, un présent je te envoie Such that the more you see it, the more joy you'll have, My Son, if you receive it so well From your Mother in your heart, as from good heart it leaves. A fine, well-bound copy. Dumoulin, n°249. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°36.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 5 - BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de). - Mimes, teachings and proverbs. Paris, Pour Lucas Breyer, 1576. In-12, blue grosgrain morocco, gilt small-iron right-hand lace on covers, smooth spine with long title, thin inner roulette, gilt edges (Thompson). Second edition, partly original: this is the first complete edition of the Mimes, comprising eight pieces (the first, published the same year by Lucas Breyer, contains only five). It features a woodcut portrait of the poet and humanist on the verso of the title. Delightful binding. From the library of the Comte de Lanjuinais. Small split without missing on the edge of folio D5. Paper slightly scorched. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°62. - Renouard, Breyer, n°26. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°37.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 6 - BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François). - Wisdom, book one. - La Muse céleste. Tours, Jamet Mettayer, 1593. 2 works in a small in-12 volume, red morocco, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Niédrée). First edition of the first book of La Sagesse, divided into 14 considerations and dealing with the means of reaching the perfect state of living well, remedying afflictions, embracing constancy, and finding complete contentment according to the divine institution. La Muse céleste, a collection of spiritual songs and paraphrases of the psalms, ending with a short didactic poem in six songs entitled De l'âme et de ses excellences, had first appeared ten years earlier in Appréhensions spirituelles... (1583). Engraved armorial bookplate Caroli Gastaldi. Spine unstained, small dents on first cover. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, p. 103. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°59-60.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 7 - BERTAUT (Jean). - Collection of poetic works. Seconde édition. Paris, Pour Lucas Breyel [sic], 1605. - Recueil de quelques vers amoureux. Paris, Philippe Patisson, 1606. 2 works in an in-8 volume, marbled glazed calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red title-piece, interior roulette, red edges (18th century binding). Second collective edition, partly original, of Jean Bertaut's Œuvres poétiques, containing a total of 75 pieces of circumstantial and religious inspiration. The Recueil de quelques vers amoureux, first published anonymously in 1602, is also in a second edition, augmented by 15 previously unpublished pieces. A Norman poet from Caen, Jean Bertaut (1552-1611) was tutor to the young Charles de Valois, Count of Auvergne, bastard son of Charles IX, then secretary to Henri III for thirteen years. In poetry, he was a disciple of Desportes, but it was the work of the great Ronsard that awakened his senses: Je n'avois pas seize ans quand la première flame / Dont ta Muse m'éprit, s'allume dans mon âme," he sings in his long funeral elegy on the death of the Vendômois (p. 146). A well-bound 18th-century copy. Some light foxing, pale wetness on several leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°31-32. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°66 and 65.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 8 - BÈZE (Théodore de). - Les Vrais pourtraits des hommes illustres en piété et doctrine, du travail dont Dieu s'est servi en ces derniers temps, pour remettre sus la vraie Religion en divers pays de la Chrestienté. [Geneva], Jean de Laon, 1581. In-4, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, central coat of arms, spine decorated with the same repeated numeral, chocolate brown moire lining and endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger). First French edition of the Icones, translated by the senlisian pastor and polygrapher Simon Goulart. It is illustrated with 48 portraits of reformers in beautiful frames, including ten new ones compared to the original Latin edition of 1580, and 44 beautiful emblems, all wood-engraved. There were two issues of this edition, both with the same number of pages and the same illustration, but with or without the name of Geneva in the address on the title page: on this copy, the unprinted name of the town has been added to the typesetter. Washed copy, bound in the collector's cipher. Bookplate of Charles-Louis Frossard (1827-1902), of Nîmes, pastor of the Reformed Church of France and archivist of the General Synod (brought back from the old binding). A restored crack to one leaf, and minor restorations to the margin of the last leaf. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°36. - Brun, p. 123. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°102. - GLN-2853. - Landwehr, Romanic, n°159-159a. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 74.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 9 - BILLARD (Claude). - Tragédies françoises. Paris, Denis Langlois, 1610. In-8, orange-red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, the caissons decorated with small irons arranged around a small green morocco umbilicus, interior lace, gilt edges (Ch. de Samblanx). First edition, dedicated to Henri IV and published before the king's assassination in the same year. It contains 7 tragedies: Polyxène, Gaston de Foix, Mérovée, Panthée, Saul, Alboin and Genèvre, each dedicated to one of the kingdom's leading figures (the Princesse de Conti, the Duc de Nevers, the Duc de Rohan, etc.). One of the introductory pieces, praising the author, is worthy of note, as it comes from the author's son, Claude Billard, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy. The playwright Claude Billard, seigneur de Courgenay, was born in the middle of the 16th century in Souvigny, near Moulins, and was advisor and secretary to Queen Marguerite. He was a fervent disciple of Ronsard, whom he glorifies in his notice to the reader, severely criticizing those little court cajoleurs with simple Minerva tonsure who despise the most honorable Manes des Champs-Elysées, this great Ronsard, the Phoenix, the Apollo, & the only Prince of the best Poets of France, before whom they would not dare to appear if he were still alive, except as little secretaries of Saint-Innocent. A very well-bound copy. It comes from the library of General Jacques Willems and appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog, Des Valois à Henri IV, under no. 32. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°38. - Picot, Rothschild, n°1105. - Soleinne, I, 1843, n°917. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°78.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 10 - BLANCHON (Joachim). - Les Premières œuvres poétiques. Paris, Pour Thomas Périer, 1583. In-8, contemporary soft vellum. First edition, dedicated to Henri III and adorned with a fine copper-engraved portrait of the monarch. Joachim Blanchon, a poet from the Limousin, claimed to be influenced by Petrarch, Desportes and, above all, Ronsard. His poetic collection includes a large number of sonnets, as well as odes, elegies and chansons. They include the Amours de Dione, the Amours de Pasithée, the Trésor de sentences, and a curious poem entitled Des trente beautés de la femme. A rare copy in contemporary vellum. Wet stamp on the title of the Ecole Ste Geneviève de Versailles. A few leaves are foxed and wet, and the body of the volume is detached from the spine. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°45. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2938. - Viollet-le-Duc, p. 271. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°88.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 11 - BONNEFONS (Jean). Pancharis. - [DURANT (Gilles, sieur de La Bergerie)]. - Imitations du latin de Jean de Bonnefons: avec autres gayetez amoureuses de l'invention de l'autheur. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1587. 2 parts in one volume in-12, granite calf, spine decorated, red speckled edges (17th century binding). First edition of the Pancharis and Imitations, inseparable works by two poets and friends from Auvergne, natives of Clermont-Ferrand: Jean Bonnefons (1554-1614), lieutenant at the baillage of Bar-sur-Seine, and Gilles Durant, sieur de La Bergerie (c. 1550-c. 1615), a lawyer who had a brilliant career at the Parlement de Paris. La Pancharis is a collection of love poems imitating Jean Second's Baisers and dedicated to an imaginary or idealized "Pancharis" (Greek for "all gracious"). Gilles Durant made a French adaptation, under the title Imitations. The two 1587 editions are usually bound together, as is the case here. Bound afterwards: DU PEYRAT (Guillaume). Spicilegia poetica et Amorum libri III. Paris, Jeremie Périer, 1601. Unique edition of this collection of Latin poems by Guillaume du Peyrat (1563-1643), a Lyonnais poet appointed chaplain to King Henri IV at the turn of the century. This collection illustrates the culture and tastes of the grande robe; in addition to pieces paying homage to the principal members of parliament and the sovereign courts, it includes a collection of epigrams and three books of love poems, mainly inspired by Catullus and often quite free. Engraved armorial bookplate B. H. de Fourcy. In the Spicilegia, a few leaves bear handwritten corrections in ink and the paper is foxed. Missing headpieces and splits at spine ends. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2 n°25 (Imitations), IV-1 n°46-47 (Pancharis), and IV-5 n°21 (Spicilegia). - Balsamo & Simonin, n°169 and 171. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°92 (Bonnefont), n°305 (Du Peyrat), and n°312 (Durant).

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 12 - BOYSSIÈRES (Jean de). - L'Arioste francoes. Avec les Argumans, & Allegories, sur châcun Chant. Premier volume. Lyon, De l'Imprimerie de Thibaud Ancelin, 1580. In-8, red morocco, triple fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). First edition of this verse translation of Ariosto's chants III to XII. The first song first appeared in the Secondes Œuvres poétiques of 1578, and the second song in La Boyssière in 1579. Woodcut portrait of the poet, aged 23, on verso of the second introductory leaf. Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1555, Jean de Boyssières first studied law, then entered the service of the Duc d'Anjou, participating as an officer in the siege and capture of Issoire (June 1577), a Protestant stronghold in Auvergne. He later abandoned his arms in favor of his pen: he tried his hand at the epic genre, publishing two epics (La Boyssière and La Croisade), translated Ariosto in particular, and even experimented with spelling. He is thought to have died in the 1580s or, at the latest, in the early 17th century. From the Robert Hoe library. Small restoration at the foot of the title, which is stained, some light foxing. Thin traces of wetness on the edges of many leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°52. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°100.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 13 - BOYSSIÈRES (Jean de). - Les Secondes œuvres poetiques. Meslanges. Paris, Pour Jean Poupy, 1568 [sic for 1578]. In-4, black morocco, double cold fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Honnelaître). This is the only edition, partly original, of the second part of the triptych of Œuvres poétiques by this poet from Auvergne. The other two were published as Premières œuvres amoureuses (1578) and Troisièmes œuvres (1579). Ronsard donated a quatrain for this work: Virgile, pour essay chanta sa Bucolique [...] Boyssières, a chanté son Amoureux tourment (cf. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°93). A copy with fine margins. However, the margins of the title and last leaf are yellowed. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°51. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°99.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 14 - BUTTET (Marc-Claude de). - L'Amalthée. Nouvellement par lui reveue, mise en ordre, et de la meilleure part augmentee. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, 1575. In-8, fawn morocco, Du Seuil decor, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Quinet). First separate edition of Amalthée, a collection of Petrarchan sonnets by Savoyard poet Marc-Claude de Buttet. It contains 320 sonnets and a dizain, 193 of them unpublished; the remaining 127 sonnets were first published following the two Livres des verses in 1560. The few elements given - allusions to Paris, but also to a château on the banks of the Rhône, to Savoy landscapes, to another mistress named Anne - have led to numerous hypotheses as to the identity of Amalthée (Nicolas Ducimetière). Born in Chambéry around 1530, Marc-Claude de Buttet was one of the most active players in the literary cenacle that gravitated around Marguerite de France, Duchess of Savoy, in the Savoy town. His verses were praised by Ronsard, who did him the honor of inviting him on a voyage to the Îles Fortunées. Buttet was the cousin of Ronsard's admirer Jean de Piochet, whose library contained numerous texts by the Vendôme-born poet. He died in Geneva in 1586. Pleasant, fresh binding. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°58. - Baudrier, III, p. 319. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., p. 203. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°109.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 15 - CABINET DES MUSES (Le): Ou nouveau recueil des plus beaux vers de ce temps. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de David du Petit-Val, 1619. Large volume in-12, midnight-blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Thibaron-Joly). Partly original edition. Le Cabinet des Muses concludes the series of collective collections published by the Du Petit-Val dynasty. According to Frédéric Lachèvre's count, it contains a total of 331 pieces: half of them first appeared in the Temple d'Apollon of 1611, and 63 pieces appear here for the first time, including some by Théophile de Viau, Bois-Robert, Jean Baudoin and De Lastre. A fine copy, from the libraries of Charles Cousin (1891, no. 347), Frédéric Lachèvre (I, 1901, no. 15) and Bruno Monnier at Château de Mantry. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies..., I, pp. 15-18. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°925.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 16 - CABINET SATYRIQUE (Le) ou Recueil parfaitict, des vers piquants & gaillards de ce temps. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1620. In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Lortic). Third edition, partly original, comprising a total of 440 pieces by various authors: Baïf, Desportes, Guy de Tours, Claude Gauchet, Jamyn, Jodelle, Clément Marot, Lingendes, Muret, Peletier du Mans, Racan, Ronsard, Saint-Gelais, Tahureau and others. Compared with the first edition of 1618, it has been reduced by 50 pieces, but has been enlarged by 30 new pieces, including some by Guillaume Colletet, Philippe Desportes, Pierre Berthelot, François Maynard and Racan. Among the free poems are Ronsard's Gaillardise and Bouquinade, a satire by Sigognes Contre une vieille courtisane qui frayoit avec le diable, the Ballet des maquereaux and an epigram entitled Sur les femmes qui montrent leur sein. Beautiful copper-engraved frontispiece. A very fine copy in Lortic morocco. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, pp. 46-52. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°926.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 17 - CAYET (Pierre Victor Palma). - L'Heptameron de la Navarride ou Histoire entière du Royaume de Navarre depuis le commencement du monde. Taken from the Spanish of Dom-Charles Infant, of Navarre. Paris, Pierre Portier, 1602. In-12, fawn morocco, covers framed with a triple gilt fillet and seeded with cold figures, spine decorated with the same repeated gilt figure, black morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger). First edition of this epic poem of almost 18,600 decasyllabic lines, presented as a verse translation of the Cronica de los Reyes de Navarra composed in the mid-15th century by Don Carlos, Prince of Viane. Among the introductory pieces is a sonnet by Du Bartas. Bound in the collector's cipher. Short margins, some running titles cut or damaged by the binder's knife, some quires foxed. Book F (pp. 121-144) duplicated. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°110.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 18 - CHALAS (le sieur de). - L'Honneur ou Le Besze. Avec quelques stances & sonnets sur les trespas de Monsieur de Besze. S.l. [Gnève], Gabriel Cartier, 1606. In-4, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt numeral in center, ornate spine, chocolate moire lining and endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger). First edition of this poem in praise of Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605): [...] Quand Beze s'en alla, le Soleil s'en alla... The poem is followed by 2 stanzas on the reformer's death, one by Sieur de Chandieu, the other by Christophe de Gamon, a Protestant poet best known for his refutation of Du Bartas' Semaine. Bound in the collector's cipher. Minor restorations to a few leaves, including the last, which is also wet and soiled. Lachèvre, Recueils de poésies libres et satiriques, p. 117. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°111.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 19 - [CHRESTIEN (Florent)]. - BUCHANAN (George). - Jephté, tragédie traduicte du latin de George Buchanan Escossois. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Robert Estienne, 1573. In-8, overlapping vellum (modern binding). Second edition of this French translation of the Latin tragedy by Buchanan (1506-1582). The first was published in Orléans by Louis Rabier in 1567. A Protestant humanist, Florent Chrestien (1541-1596) studied Greek in Geneva with Henri Estienne, and was a friend of the physician Jacques Grévin. He took part in the writing of the Satyre ménippée (1593) and was one of Ronsard's detractors in the "Querelle des discours", notably with his virulent poem Apologie ou deffense d'un homme chrestien pour imposer silence aux sottes répréhensions de M. Pierre de Ronsard (1564). Small crack restored to edge of folio A2, restoration to lower corner of folio B2. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°68. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°127.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 20 - CLÉMENT (Nicolas). - Austrasiae, reges et duces epigrammatis. Cologne, s.n., 1591. In-4, blond calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, havana title page, marbled edges (18th century binding). First edition, in Latin, of this collection of portraits of the Dukes of Lorraine, accompanied by poems by the historian Nicolas Clément. Beautifully illustrated, with a vignette on the title and 63 medallion portraits engraved on copper by Lorraine artist Pierre Woeiriot, one of the most important engravers of the French Renaissance. The portrait of Charles III is in first state, depicted wearing a feathered cap. Engraved bookplates De Mory Delvange and A. Bretagne, director of direct taxes. The date on the title page has been corrected in pen to 1593, a feature common to other copies. Some foxing and wetness. Binding rubbed. Brun, p. 155. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°131.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 21 - CLÉMENT (Nicolas). - Les Rois et ducs d'Austrasie, translated into French. Coulongne, 1591. Small in-4, porphyry calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, green title page, interior roulette, speckled edges (18th-century binding). First edition in French, translated by Dijon physician François Guibaudet. It follows the original Latin version published the same year at the same address. Illustrated with the same 63 fine medallion portraits of the Dukes of Lorraine, engraved on copper by Pierre Woeiriot: here, the portrait of Charles III, bareheaded, is in second state. From the Roger Paultre library (1993, no. 66). As on many copies, the date on the title page has been altered in the pen (1593 instead of 1591). Extensive wetness on the second flyleaf, some foxing. The last blank leaf has not been preserved. Hinges rubbed. Brun, p. 155. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2335. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°132.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 22 - CONSTANT (Pierre). - La République des abeilles. Paris, Gervais Mallot, 1582. In-4, bradel stiff vellum (Binding circa 1900). Very rare first edition of this early poem by Pierre Constant, a poet from Langres. On the title, a fine typographical mark by Gervais Mallot, a bookseller active in Paris from 1570 to 1587 (Silvestre, no. 315). Pierre Constant was not a Protestant, but was a fierce enemy of the League party and devoted several works to the praise of Henri IV. Deploring the misery of the country, torn apart by the wars of religion, he invites the warring Franciscans to reconcile and live in peace, around their king, as the little honey flies do harmoniously in their hive with their queen. The poem is divided into four books, and begins with these lovely lines: I sing of the union, the state, also the morals, / Of these easy peoples who trade in flowers, / Together the works, & of their Republics / The well-observed law, their political ways, / And the soucy they have admirable of themselves, / To preserve, cherish, & honor a King [...]. At the end are 3 pieces in French and Latin, including a sonnet addressed to M. de Chasteau-Guibert on the noble nickname of his house, Taille fer de Montausier. Title a little browned. Notebook I shorter at head. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1 n°74. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°125. - Techener, Bibliothèque champenoise, n°1183 ("Livre rare"). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°134.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 23 - CORROZET (Gilles). - Le Parnasse des poètes françois modernes, contenant leurs plus riches & graves Sentences, Discours, Descriptions, & doctes enseignemens. Paris, Galiot Corrozet, 1571. In-8, jansenist green morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Very rare first edition of this famous collection of poems that Corrozet dedicated to the Poëtes François: Vivez Poëtes sacrez, immortalize your names, Chantez éternellement en ce Parnasse, & le grand Appollon tousjours vivant vous abrevera d'une vive source, qui s'espandra par l'univers de siècle en siècle. It contains some 400 poems or excerpts by various poets (Passerat, Marguerite de Navarre, Melin de Saint-Gelais, Clément Marot, Tahureau, Bonaventure des Périers, Baïf, Du Bellay, Jodelle, Tyard, Des Autels, La Péruse, etc.); those from the Pléiade are especially prominent, especially Ronsard, the Prince of poets, who takes the lion's share of citations, with over half (174). This Parnasse is not an anthology. Verses truncated, cut off, placed end to end: Corrozet calmly apologized for his audacity. He did so to "better bind and join the meaning of poetry and sentences". [...] But Corrozet had, in addition, the ambition to forge, by means of his quotations, a vast moral lesson (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II, n°78). Marked in ink in the blank of the title. From the Laurent Currie library (bookplate). Spine a little darkened, nerves rubbed. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies du XVIe siècle, pp. 88-90. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°904.

Estim. 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 24 - COURCELLES DE CANDES (Pierre de). - Le Cantique des cantiques de Salomon, mis en vers François, selon la vérité Hébraïque. Ensemble, Les Lamentations de Jérémie le prophète, avec l'Épistre d'iceluy. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1564. In-16, modern vellum. Rare first edition of this French versification of the Song of Songs, with music, by Pierre de Courcelles, born in Candes, Touraine. Contains a double sonnet by Théodore de Bèze addressed to the author. Regulated copy. Renouard, p. 166. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°137.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 25 - DAVITY (Pierre). - Work without work. Avec le Tumbeau de Madame la Duchesse de Beaufort. Lyon, Thibaud Ancelin, 1601. In-12, vellum, gilt fillet, gilt foliage medallion in center, traces of binding, smooth spine decorated with fillets and a repeated fleurette, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Second edition of the first collection of poems by Pierre Davity (or d'Avity), a poet from Tournon, Vivarais, originally published in 1599 and dedicated to the Duc de Vendôme. Preceded by introductory pieces by poets from the Dauphiné and Lyon regions, the work includes two short histories galantes, the dialogues La Courtisane mariée and La Belle dédaigneuse, 77 missive letters, numerous sonnets, epigrams, stanzas and epitaphs. There are also two charming pieces written for Mademoiselle de Reynier's weasel: Petite follastre Belette, Bestelette follastrelette [...]. Gustave Reynier, in Le Roman sentimental avant l'Astrée (p. 175, note 2), underlined the interest of Davity's letters for the study of the cultural and social life of the period in the Vivarais, Dauphiné and Rhône valley. An attractive copy, preserved in its attractive contemporary gilt vellum. It appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog, Des Valois à Henri IV, under no. 61. From the Genard library (1882, n°192) (damaged bookplate). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1 n°79. - Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies, t. I, p. 159. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 143.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 26 - DES AUTELS (Guillaume). - Replique aux furieuses defenses de Louis Meigret. Avec la Suite du Repos de Lautheur. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1551. In-8, red morocco, large gilt cartouche at center of covers, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). First edition. The Réplique was part of the controversy between Des Autels and Louis Meigret over the reform of French spelling and language: it provided the young poet with an opportunity to criticize Du Bellay's Deffence..., even to launch a few jabs at Ronsard, and to argue in favor of national poetry. The Suite du Repos de plus grand travail occupies pp. 75-127 and comprises 47 poems, including one by Pontus de Tyard, cousin of Des Autels: the other 46, marked by the influence of Petrarch, are from the pen of the poet who sings his Saint, a certain Denyse L'Hoste. A fine copy. Minor marginal restoration to 2 leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°65. - Cartier, n°188. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2572. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°153.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 27 - DES AUTELS (Guillaume). - Repos de plus grand travail. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1550. In-8, garnet, Jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Godillot). First edition of the first printed work by Guillaume des Autels (1529-1581). In this work, the Burgundian poet, an admirer of Maurice Scève and cousin of Pontus de Tyard, sings of his love for his Saint, a young lady named Denyse L'Hoste, whom he had met in 1549 in Romans, Dauphiné: [...] I find in you a double immortal life. These are the effects of true celestial love, which I desire to be from you in me as it is from me in you: Amour ne dy je pas terrestre, de la chair & des corps, mais celeste des esprits & des ames (dedication). From the Achille Perreau and Exbrayat libraries. Some leaves, including title, slightly yellowed. Handwritten note in faded ink on title. Cartier, n°164. - Picot, Rothschild, n°654. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°157.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 28 - DES MASURES (Louis). - Tragedies sainctes. David fighting. David triumphant. David fugitive. Spiritual sheepfold. Spiritual eclogue. S.l. [Genève], Gabriel Cartier for Claude d'Augy, 1583. In-8, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine with repeated numeral, tan morocco lining with gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges, slipcase (Honegger). Rare Geneva edition, printed by Gabriel Cartier, whose typographical mark "à la femme arpenteur" adorns the title (Silvestre, n°718). Born in Tournai, the poet and humanist Louis des Masures (1515-1574) was secretary to the House of Lorraine, which offered him protection during his youth until his conversion to Protestantism. His most famous work is a translation of the twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid. Copy in doubled morocco, with the collector's coat of arms and cipher. A washed copy, with the title rebacked. Leaves B2-3 are trimmed short of the lateral margin, the binder's knife reaching a few letters and the pagination. Small paper loss at bottom corner of leaf T4, affecting a few letters. Slight wetness at the bottom of the first and last quires. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°93 ("le présent volume est d'une grande importance pour qui se penche sur la poésie des protestants de langue française"). - GLN-2998. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°169.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 29 - DES ROCHES (Madeleine & Catherine). - La Puce de Madame Des-Roches. Qui est un recueil de divers Poëmes Grecs, Latins & François, composz par plusieurs doctes personnages aux Grans Jours tenus à Poitiers l'An 1579. Paris, Pour Abel L'Angelier, 1582. In-4, wine-leather morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). First edition of this famous collective collection of the bantering and learned poems of the "chante-puce" poets. One of only a few copies with the date 1582, characteristic of the first issue. The story of Madame des Roches' puce is well known: in 1579, several distinguished persons, magistrates and gentlemen, who were at the Grands Jours (extraordinary sessions of justice) in Poitiers, charmed their leisure hours by cultivating poetry: after some time, Pasquier, casting an eye on Catherine Fradonnet (or more exactly on her bodice), spotted "une Pulce qui s'estoit parquee au beau milieu de son sein". Galant, the magistrate declared that the insolent insect, for having had the privilege of trotting over the anatomy of such a beautiful and learned person, deserved "to be enshrined in our papers". The game was on. [...] In the autumn of 1582, a gentleman from Poitou named Jacques de Sourdrai ordered the one hundred and fifteen collected pieces and entrusted them to the official publisher of the Dames des Roches, Abel L'Angelier (N. Ducimetière). The collection contains various sonnets, epigrams, odes, etc., in French, Greek and Latin, by Claude Binet, Jean Binet, Jacques Courtin de Cissé, Catherine des Roches, Achille de Harlay, Jacques Mangot, Pierre Pithou, Nicolas Rapin and Joseph Scaliger. The poem by Étienne Pasquier, the instigator of this curious literary joust, proved most delightful and set the tone for the other fine minds present that day: [...] of course, the incident was a pretext for erotic reveries and declarations of love. One goes so far as to compare the animal to Cupid. [...] This evokes the charms that the young girl keeps hidden from the gentlemen and that only the flea can visit. [...] Imagination and desire are expressed both freely and with preciosity. (Dictionary of Erotic Works, pp. 422-423). A large-margined copy, well bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. It is cited by Balsamo & Simonin, with fine provenances: Maximilien de Clinchamp (1860, no. 250), Armand Cicongne (1861, no. 890, library purchased en bloc by the Duc d'Aumale, whose duplicates he resold), Henri Bordes (1911, no. 32) and Albert-Louis Natural (1987, no. 48). Spine faded, spine split over a few centimeters. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°56. - Balsamo & Simonin, n°76. - Cat. De Backer, I, 1926, n°372. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., p. 266. - Tchemerzine, II, p. 909. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°213.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 30 - DESPORTES (Philippe). - Les Premières œuvres. Antwerp, Pierre Vibert, 1587. In-16, soft vellum over boards, title calligraphed in ink on spine (contemporary binding). Edition copied from the Paris edition of 1578, probably without the poet's authorization: of the 382 pieces it contains, none are unpublished. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°12. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°183.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 31 - DESPORTES (Philippe). - Cent pseaumes de David, mis en vers François. Avec quelques Cantiques de la Bible, & autres œuvres Chrestiennes, & Prières. - Christian poems. - Quelques prieres & meditations chrestiennes. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1598. 3 parts in one volume in-8, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Partly original edition of the spiritual poems by Philippe Desportes (1546-1606), divided into three parts, each with a separate title and pagination, and containing 26 previously unpublished psalms. Fine margins, formerly ruled, from the library of Count de Fresne (1893, no. 7). Old handwritten inscription (probably an ex-libris) faded at the bottom of the title. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2 n°17. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°65. - Tchemerzine, t. II, pp. 895-896. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°190-192.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 32 - DORAT (Jean). - Magnificentissimi spectaculi, a regina Regum Matre in hortis suburbanis editi, in Henrici Regis Poloniae invictissimi nuper renunciati gratulationem, descriptio. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1573. Plaquette in-4, black morocco, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a mosaic of empty fanfare in fawn morocco, gilt numeral in center, ornate spine, fawn morocco lining set with gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges, case (Semet & Plumelle). Very rare first edition of this beautiful holiday book. Relation du ballet dit des Polonais, mis en scène par Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, qu'offert la reine Catherine de Médicis en 1573 à la délégation polonaise venue présente au duc d'Anjou (futur Henri III) la couronne de Pologne. In his Mémoires, Brantôme recounts that, after a sumptuous banquet at the Tuileries, the audience moved to a large hall, set up for the occasion, and surrounded by an infinite number of torches, where the most beautiful ballet ever performed took place. It was composed of sixteen Dames & Damoiselles, [...] who appeared in a large silver rock, where they were seated in niches in the form of clouds on all sides. The sixteen Ladies represented the sixteen Provinces of France, with the most melodious music we have ever seen [...], the violins rising to about thirty, sounding almost a very pleasant war air. Considered the most famous of the ballets danced at court during the reign of Charles IX, this feast marks the vogue and triumph of figurative dance in France (Henry Prunières, Le Ballet de cour en France avant Benserade et Lully, pp. 55-56). The edition is illustrated with woodcuts attributed to Jean Cousin or Olivier Codoré: 3 large full-page woodcuts, one allegorical depicting Jupiter seated beneath a trophy and surrounded by Athena and Apollo, the other two representing the monument built for the ballet and the dance hall; 16 vignettes in the form of emblems accompany the Catalogus Nympharum. In addition to Dorat's description of the festivities in Latin verse, the work also contains an ode by Amadis Jamyn (La Nymphe angevine parle) and an unpublished ode by Ronsard that was not reprinted during the poet's lifetime (La Nymphe de France parle). A washed copy, in a fine fanfare binding with empty compartments bearing the collector's number. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1 n°81 and III n°79. - Dumoulin, Morel, n°218. - Mortimer, n°177. - Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°245. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°220 and 753.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 33 - DU BARTAS (Guillaume de Salluste). - La Sepmaine, ou Création du monde. Paris, Pour Jean Février, 1580, small in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, gilt B on tail, small inner lace, gilt edges (18th century binding). Rare portable edition of the famous poem by Du Bartas (1544-1590). The text of this edition, apparently the fourth given by Février and Gadoulleau, is identical to the text of the two in-4 editions of 1578. A charming 18th-century morocco copy. Old handwritten bookplate faded at the end of the volume. Some light foxing. Barbier, IV-1 n°7. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°229.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 34 - DU BARTAS (Guillaume de Salluste). - La Sepmaine, ou Création du monde [...], Divisée en considérations, & illustrée des Commentaires de Pantaléon Thévenin Lorrain. Paris, [Denis Cottinet pour] Jérôme de Marnef & Veuve Guillaume Cavellat, 1585. In-4, limp vellum, remnants of laces (19th-century binding). First and only edition of Pantaléon Thévenin's commentaries on Du Bartas' Semaine. It features a woodcut vignette for each day, and 2 fold-out tables. A humanist from Lorraine, Pantaléon Thévenin was a tutor and lecturer at the University of Pont-à-Mousson, and is known for his commentary on Ronsard's Hymne de la philosophie (1582). Thévenin wraps the text of the Sepmaine in the manner of the great Italian commentators who set those pure jewels that are the Divine Comedy or the Canzoniere (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). Marginal staining to title and a few leaves, bottom corner of first 3 leaves slightly nibbled. Stained vellum. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, no. 16. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°239.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 35 - DU BARTAS (Guillaume de Salluste). - La Seconde sepmaine. Reveue, augmentée, & embellie en divers passages, par l'Autheur mesme. - Suite des œuvres : contenant les Pères [...]. La Loy [...], & l'Histoire de Jonas. Édition nouvelle, augmentée d'un livre entier [...]. S.l. [Genève], Pour Jacques Chouët, 1593. 2 works in one volume, in-12, vellum over boards, double cold fillet, stamped design on first board, traces of binding (Binding of the period). Rare Geneva editions. This edition of the Seconde sepmaine retains the contents of the original 1584 edition, along with Simon Goulart's commentary first published in 1589. The Suite des œuvres, with commentary by the same polygraph, contains an unpublished poem: La Loy. To date, only one copy of the Suite des œuvres has been catalogued in France by the GLN, at the BnF (Arsenal). The other known copies are held in European institutions or in the United States. Old handwritten bookplate on title: Alexander Lünebürg. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°17-18. - GLN-3610 and 3611. - Picot, Rothschild, no. 3270 (for the 1589 edition of the Seconde sepmaine). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°241-242.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 36 - DU BARTAS (Guillaume de Salluste). - Les Œuvres poétiques et chrestiennes. Last edition. Lyon, Thibaud Ancelin, 1607. In-24, contemporary soft vellum covers. One of the very first collective editions of Du Bartas' poetic works. Printed in small type, it is the second given by Ancelin after that of 1606. It contains the Semaines, the Judith, the Uranie, etc. Ex-libris label from the library of the Comte de Waresquiel. Small angular wetness to first 7 quires. Some leaves a little short, cut by the binder's knife. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°20. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°245.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 37 - DU BELLAY (Joachim). - Epithalame sur le mariage de tresillustre prince Philibert Emanuel, duc de Savoye, et tresillustre princesse Marguerite de France, sœur unique du Roy, et duchesse de Berry. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Fédéric Morel, 1561. Booklet in-4, 14 leaves, garnet-red, Jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges, slipcase (René Aussourd). First edition of this lyrical poem composed by Du Bellay in anticipation of the wedding of his benefactress, Princess Marguerite, sister of Henri II, to Duke Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy. Light marginal staining. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°22. - Dumoulin, n°25. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., no. 92. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 266.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 38 - DU BELLAY (Joachim). - Louange de la France et du Roy treschrestien Henry II. Ensemble un discours sur la poésie. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1560. 8-leaf in-4 booklet, blue Jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Devauchelle). First edition of this occasional play in praise of King Henri II. It was shared between Vincent Sertenas and Fédéric Morel. The Praise is followed by Discours au Roy sur la Poësie, in which Du Bellay recalls the timeless power of verse and compares the poet's pen to that of the historian when it comes to preserving the memory of the Powers; thus, after evoking certain great Kings & magnanimous Princes who engraved the glory of their genial deeds in raised marble, he speaks of [....] some others wiser / Wanting to perpetuate the noise of their virtue / By work that could not be destroyed by time, / Who did not fear fire, nor iron, nor storm, / [...] borrowed the hands, / And the immortal labor of learned writers. Early handwritten bookplate on last leaf: Lucas pharmaris (?). Picot, Rothschild, n°3259. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°268.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 39 - DU BELLAY (Joachim). - Le Premier livre des antiquitez de Rome, contenant une générale description de sa grandeur, et comme une déploration de sa ruine: [...] Plus un Songe ou vision sur le mesme subiect. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Fédéric Morel, 1558. Plaquette in-4 of 14 leaves, fawn morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in the center, spine decorated with gilt fillets, double inner fillet, marbled edges, case (G. Plumelle). Second edition, published the same year as the original by the same publisher: these two editions differ only in minor spelling corrections. Poem written by Du Bellay (1522-1560) during a stay in Rome from 1553 to 1557, where he had followed his relative Cardinal Jean du Bellay, called upon to defend France's interests as ambassador to the Holy See. These include a series of 32 sonnets in memory of ancient Rome and its illustrious past, and a series of 15 sonnets entitled Songe. Elegant impression by Frédéric Morel, in italic type. A fine copy, bound in the collector's coat of arms. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°15. - Dumoulin, n°19. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°257.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 40 - [DU BELLAY (Joachim)]. - Le Quatriesme livre de l'Enéide de Vergile, traduict en vers Françoys. La Complaincte de Didon à Énée, prinse d'Ovide. Autres oueuvres de l'invention du translateur. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1552. In-8, brown morocco, boards framed with a gilt fillet and decorated with a geometrical pattern of straight and broken fawn morocco scrolls, figure repeated on the boards, ornate spine, caissons drawn with fawn morocco scrolls, charged with the same gilt figure, slipcase (G. Plumelle). First edition of Du Bellay's translation. In addition to this translation of Virgil, the work also contains 29 previously unpublished pieces by the poet, including XIII Sonnetz de l'honneste Amour. Other works by the author include Complainte du désespéré, Monomachie de David & de Goliath, Lyre chrestienne, Discours sur la louange de la vertu & sur les diverses erreurs des hommes, Deux marguerites, etc. Fine copy, bound by Georges Plumelle in Renaissance style and bearing the collector's cipher. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°10. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°251.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 41 - [DU BELLAY (Joachim)]. - Recueil de Poesie, presente a tresillustre princesse Madame Marguerite, sœur unique du Roy, & mis en lumiere par le commandement de madicte Dame. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1553. In-8, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, tan morocco lining with gilt fillet, chocolate brown moire endpapers, case (G. Plumelle). Second edition, partly original, of Joachim Du Bellay's first collection of poems, originally published in 1549 and dedicated to his principal patron, Marguerite de Valois, Duchess of Berry. It contains 4 previously unpublished pieces, including the poem À une dame, in which Du Bellay denounces the art of pétrarquiser. The rest of the volume follows the text of the original edition: it includes the Prosphonématique au Roy treschrestien Henry II, the Chant triomphal sur le voyage de Boulogne 1549 au moys d'aoust and the Vers lyriques, odes, chansons, addressed to various major figures including Henri II, Marguerite de Navarre, the poet Saint-Gelais, the Guise, etc. Bound in doubled morocco, with the collector's coat of arms. Unwashed copy, a few brown spots. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°11. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°252.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 42 - DU BELLAY (Joachim) et Michel de L'HOSPITAL. - Collection of 6 works in one volume, in-4, stiff vellum (19th century binding). Collection of 6 works printed by Frédéric Morel, including 2 first editions by Joachim du Bellay. It bears on the title of the first piece this 16th-century manuscript bookplate (scratched out) Ex libris Francisci Tartaretii, which, according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller, is that of François Tartaret, canon of Mâcon, man of letters and poet to whom we owe in particular a sonnet in favor of Pontus de Tyard published in the Solitaire premier (1552). It is perhaps this "occasional rhymer [who] does not seem to have had the strength to give an entire collection of his works" who would have collected the following works: - DU BELLAY. Poematum libri quatuor. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1568. First edition of the Poemata, containing 162 previously unpublished pieces, including several "burning poems" collected under the title Amores and inspired by a certain Faustine, a Roman patrician or courtesan (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, no. 16). - DU BELLAY. Xenia seu illustrium quorumdam nominum allusiones. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1569. First edition, including 36 previously unpublished pieces: Etymological playfulness [...], the Xenia are as many games on the names of illustrious contemporaries or friends of the Angevin (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°41). Of particular note is the elegy to Jean de Morel that closes the work, in which Du Bellay gives some details of his life. - DU BELLAY]. - In Joachimum Bellaium [...] carmina et tumuli. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1560. First edition of this poetic tomb in tribute to Joachim du Bellay, with pieces by Adrien Turnèbe, Claude d'Espence, Hélie André, Léger Duchesne and Claude Roillet: a very small procession around such a large coffin (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). - THE HOSPITAL. De Sacra francisci II. Galliarum regis initiatione... Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1560. First edition of the epigram to Cardinal de Lorraine and the two poems, one on the coronation of the young François II, the other addressed to François Olivier, Chancellor of France (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 43). - L'HOSPITAL. De Meti urbe capta et ab hostium ingenti obsidione liberata. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1560. Ode to Duke François de Guise, hero of the defense of Metz in 1552 during the siege of the city by Charles V's troops (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°42). - L'HOSPITAL. In Francisci illustriss. Franciae delphini, et Mariae Sereniss. Scotorum reginae nuptias, viri cuiusdam ampliss. Carmen. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1560. Second edition, after the original of 1559, of this poem composed for the coronation of the dauphin François, son of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis, and Marie Stuart, Queen of Scots (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°41). Handwritten bookplate Ex biblioth. P. du Pelletier (18th century) at the top of the Poematum title, and other scratches. Small light wetness affecting the edges of a few leaves. Vellum restored.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 43 - DU SOUHAIT (François). - Les Divers souhaits d'amour. - The nine French muses. - Beauty and love. Pastorelle. - Le Plaidoyé et jugement des trois graces françoises. - Tragedy of Radegonde duchesse de Bourgongne. Paris, Jacques Rezé, 1599. Together 5 works in one volume in-12, green morocco, triple fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Binding circa 1840). Collection of 5 extremely rare poetic works, in first editions, by François du Souhait, a gentleman from Champagne who died in 1615 and was secretary to the Duke of Lorraine. They were all published by Jacques Rezé, a bookseller active in Paris from 1594 to 1606. A similar collection, with the same pieces, appeared in the Soleinne library (I, 1843, no. 873), with this catalog note: Recueil bien difficile à former. Divers souhaits d'amour is dedicated to the Duc de Montpensier and contains amorous stanzas, songs, sonnets and epigrams; it includes a Chanson de la chasse, in 23 lines, which begins with the invitation: Esprits quit l'Amour / Venez suyvre la chasse... The pastorelle is a debate on whether to give preference to beauty or love. Minor wetness to a few leaves. Lachèvre, Poésies libres et satiriques, pp. 207-208. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°316-320.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 44 - DU TRONCHET (Étienne). - Lettres missives et familières. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Nicolas du Chemin, 1569. In-4, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine with repeated numeral, double fillet inside, chocolate brown moire lining and endpapers, gilt edges, slipcase (Honegger). Extremely rare first edition, shared between Nicolas du Chemin and Lucas Breyer. The 1568 edition by Lucas Breyer alone, mentioned by Du Verdier, does not seem to exist. Étienne du Tronchet, a poet from Forez, died around 1585 in Rome, where he had spent the last years of his life. His Lettres missives et familières, in prose or sometimes verse, are addressed to a large number of people, most of whom live or work in Lyon and Forez. Some of the letters are signed with the author's anagram: En heur content se dit. His poems include the sonnet Pour exemple de chasteté, Sur les loüanges de sa maîtresse, and the Sonnet au Roy, sur la pacification des premiers troubles. His poems only ever appeared in this way, mixed with the Lettres missives (see the handwritten note at the beginning of the volume, taken from the catalog of Édouard Turquety's poetic library, 1868, no. 155). Very fine impression by Nicolas du Chemin. The title is set in an attractive woodcut frame with two satyrs each holding a basket of fruit, the same as that used for the collective edition of Pontus de Tyard's works published in Paris by Galiot du Pré in 1573. The text is embellished with large, highly decorative, ornate initials. A morocco copy bearing the collector's coat of arms. Ex-libris of Frédéric Lachèvre, probably brought back from the old binding. Missing the second leaf, with the author's portrait. Smudging on the edges of the last 30 leaves, with the lower margin of the last 2 restored. Renouard, Breyer, n°7. - Picot, Rothschild, n°1876 (for the 1615 edition). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°324.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 45 - DU TRONCHET (Étienne). - Lettres missives et familières. With the Monologue of Divine Providence to the French people. [...]. Reveües, corrigées & augmentées de plusieurs Lettres amoureuses, tirées tant de l'Italien du Bembe, que de plusieurs autres Autheurs. Paris, Hilaire Le Bouc, 1596. In-12, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Edition shared between several booksellers, including Hilaire Le Bouc, the widow Drobet and Marc Orry. Lettres missives et familières first appeared in 1568-1569 in Paris with Lucas Breyer (see previous lot), before being reprinted many times with various additions. The work was intended for practitioners of the epistolary genre, to whom Du Tronchet wished to offer model letters. In his preface, he invites them to reflect on how to be a good secretary, and describes three types: bastard secretaries, engendered by the pampering of ignorance, barbaric secretaries and legitimate secretaries. Philippe Renouard, in his directory of Parisian printers and booksellers, could only find one copy addressed to Hilaire Le Bouc: this is the one from the Lignerolles library (II, 1894, no. 2106). Engraved bookplate bearing the initials PR and the motto Notre-Dame protège la France et la lignée de nos rois, undetermined. Renouard, Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, III, n°339 bis. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°325.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 46 - DU VAIR (Guillaume). - The Moral Philosophy of the Stoics. Avec le Manuel d'Epictète. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, s.d. [1594]. 2 parts in one volume, in-16, havana morocco, boards decorated with a border and a decoration of 16 medallions of foliage each bearing a different flower and arranged around a central empty oval, smooth spine decorated in the same taste, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Collective edition of these two prose treatises by Guillaume du Vair (1556-1621), a moralist and great orator who was Keeper of the Seals under Louis XIII and Bishop of Lisieux. Charming binding in the style of those produced in Paris at the same time for the Venetian diplomat Pietro Duodo (1554-1611). The engraved title-frontispiece is a little damaged in the inner margin; it bears a wet stamp with the initials ME, undetermined. Slight wetness on first and last leaves. Upper spine restored. Balsamo & Simonin, n°236. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°326.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 47 - ELLAIN (Nicolas). - Discours panegyrique à Révérend Père en Dieu Monseigneur Messire Pierre de Gondy, Evesque de Paris [...]. Paris, Denis du Pré, 1570. 8-leaf in-4 booklet, stiff vellum (modern binding). First edition of this speech on the reception and entry of Bishop Pierre de Gondi, known as Cardinal de Retz (1533-1616), in Paris on March 9, 1570. Protected by Catherine de Médicis, he was appointed Bishop of Paris in 1568, Chancellor and Grand Chaplain to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX. He carried out various diplomatic missions in Rome under Henri III and Henri IV. Nicolas Ellain (1535-1621) is listed in Chereau's French Medical Parnassus (pp. 203-204) as one of France's former physician-poets. This modest Parisian poet wrote a number of sonnets and panegyric speeches, collected collectively in 1861 by Achille Genty under the title Œuvres poétiques françoises de Nicolas Ellain, as well as an Advis sur la peste (1606). The Discours is followed by pieces in Latin and French, including a sonnet à Monseigneur de Paris sur son nom ainsi tourné Pierre de Gondy Per digne de Roy, a poem by Jacques Moysson, a clerk at the Châtelet and co-owner of the "maison de l'Ange" that Ronsard rented in 1564 (cf. Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, no. 44). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°29. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°334.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 48 - FILLEUL (Nicolas). - Le Discours. Rouen, Martin Le Mesgissier, 1560. In-4, green morocco, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Lortic fils). First edition of this collection of 117 moral sonnets, written by a dramatic poet from Rouen who drew on the work of Du Bellay. These sonnets express the disappointment of the honest man discouraged by the frivolity of courtiers and the uselessness of his own efforts in the realm of futility (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). Old handwritten bookplate faded on title. Leaves uniformly browned. Spine faded. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°38. - Frère, I, p. 468. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°347.

Estim. 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 49 - FONTAINE (Charles). - Les Epistres d'Ovide nouvellement mises en vers Françoys. [...] Plus y a la response à icelles epistres. Lyon, [Philibert Rollet pour] Eustace Barricat, 1552. 2 parts in one volume, in-16, supple vellum overlay, gilt fillet, small fleuron in center, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding). First edition of this translation by the poet Charles Fontaine (1515-1589), a disciple and defender of Clément Marot, who spent part of his life in Lyon, where he became close to Barthélemy Aneau. It was shared between Jean Temporal and Eustache Barricat, a Lyon merchant-librarian whose publishing activity is known only from a dozen editions published between 1550 and 1556. Barricat's typographical mark on the title (Silvestre, n°543). The Response aux dix epistres precedentes, by Michel d'Amboise, is paginated separately. A charming copy in contemporary gilt vellum. Ink scratch on title. Angular staining throughout. Baudrier, IV, p. 2. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°348.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 50 - FORCADEL (Étienne). - Œuvres poétiques. Derniere Edition reveuë, corrigee, & augmentee par l'Autheur. Paris, Guillaume Chaudière, 1579. In-8, red morocco, framed with five gilded fillets, ornate spine, green title page, lined edge to edge in red morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Thompson). Partly original edition, containing 7 previously unpublished epigrams and epitaphs. Son of a gem merchant, Étienne Forcadel was born in Béziers around 1520 and taught law in Toulouse. He died in the 1570s. Marcel Raymond, in his study L'Influence de Ronsard sur la poésie française, t. I, p. 52, ranks the poet first among the immediate predecessors of the Pléiade, who grew up in the cult of Marot, but knew the price of knowledge, and began to plunder methodically, if not Thebes, at least Apulia, Virgil, Ovid, Theocritus, Petrarch. Elegant doubled morocco binding. From the libraries of Maréchal Sébastiani (1851, no. 248), Duc d'Aumale (stamp on verso of title), P. Desq (1866, no. 448) and Joseph Renard (1881, no. 579). Some foxing. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°42. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°355.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 51 - FORGET (Pierre). - Les Sentimens universels. [...] Quatriesme edition. Paris, Anthoine de Sommaville, 1646. In-12, contemporary limp vellum. The Sentimens universels by Pierre Forget, sieur de Beauvais et de La Picardière (1569-1638), secretary to the king's chamber and poet in his spare time, consist of around 1000 quatrains. From the library of Armand-Joseph de Béthune, Duc de Charost. Slight wetness on the edges of a few leaves. Copy a little handled. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°356.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 52 - GARNIER (Robert). - Tragedies. - Les Juifves, tragedy. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1582-1583. 2 works in one volume, in-12, black morocco, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a diamond-rectangle decoration drawn by scrolls of fawn morocco, gilt numeral in the center, ornate spine, repeated numeral, lining and endpapers of chocolate brown moire (Honegger). Second collective edition, in continuous pagination, containing the author's first seven dramatic plays (Bradamante, Porcie, Hippolyte, Cornélie, Marc-Antoine, La Troade and Antigone), and first edition of Les Juifves, his last tragedy. There are 2 pieces by Ronsard in the Tragédies. A native of Maine and friend of Ronsard, Robert Garnier (c. 1545-1590) drew much of his inspiration from the great ancient playwrights. Through his lyricism and the poetic quality of his tragedies, he established himself, alongside Étienne Jodelle, as one of the great dramatists of the French Renaissance. The volume, bound with the collector's own number and thus put together by him, brings together all of Robert Garnier's tragedies. Washed copy. An ink stain on folio 14. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°47. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., no. 58. - Tchemerzine, t. III, pp. 425-426. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°371-372.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 53 - GODARD (Jean). - Les Œuvres, divided into two volumes. Plus les Trophées du Roy composez & adioutez depuis l'impression des présentes œuvres. Lyon, [Jean Tholosan pour] Pierre Landry, 1594. 2 volumes in one in-8, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges, slipcase (H. Alix). First collective edition of Jean Godard's works, partly original, containing over 500 pieces. Dedicated to Henri IV, whose woodcut medallion portrait adorns the verso of both title pages, it includes La Flore ou les premières amours, La Lucresse ou les secondes amours, the tragedy La Franciade, the comedy Les Desguisés, the three books of La Fonteine de Gentilly, the three others of La Fonteine de Saint-Font, and the Trophées de Henri IV, a series of 34 sonnets in which the poet sings in a thousand ways of the exploits of the King of Navarre. We should also mention a series of 45 chansons, various sonnets and other poems, including La Perdrix, La Pauvreté, Les Goguettes, Le Flascon, and L'Amitié, a long poem addressed to his long-time friend the lawyer Jean Heudon (see nos. 57 and 58). Apart from Amours de Flore and Trophées, already published, the rest are unpublished. A poet born in Paris in the 1560s and dying around 1630, Jean Godard was lieutenant in the bailliage of Ribemont in Picardy, then lived in Bordeaux, Clermont in Auvergne, and Villeneuve in Beaujolais. A first-rate copy, extensively described by J. P. Barbier-Mueller in his Bibliothèque poétique. From the Edmée Maus library (bookplate). Volume I, small restored tear on edge of folio N1, not missing. Volume II, repaired tear on folio Bb1, and paper loss at the corner of folio Cc1 (restored, advertisement copied in pen). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°48. - Baudrier, V, pp. 341-342. - Picot, Rothschild, n°760 - Soleinne, I, n°852. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°376.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 54 - GUY DE TOURS (Michel Guy, dit). - Les Premières œuvres poétiques et souspirs amoureux. Paris, Pour Nicolas de Louvain, 1598. In-12, red morocco, small gilt motif in the corners and Arabic cartouche in the center, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Binding circa 1880). A rare first edition of the poetic works of Guy de Tours, whose poems are mainly inspired by love and reflect his passion for Petrarch. It is proverbially rare, says J. P. Barbier-Mueller, who adds that the copies sold poorly and were put back into circulation, as they were, with a new title dated 1602. Dedicated to Roger de Bellegarde, grand écuyer de France, it is divided into seven books and comprises 482 pieces, under the titles Souspirs amoureux, Mignardises amoureuses, Meslanges and Épitaphes. These include a series of 29 anatomical blazons (Pourtrait de son Ente) and 2 pieces addressed to Ronsard roy des poetes françois. The fifth book ends with Le Paradis d'amour, dedicated to the Nymphs of Tours, a poem praised by Viollet-le-Duc in which Guy de Tours pleasantly names and praises the city's most beautiful women. Very attractive, unsigned binding. The copy has a few slightly short leaves, the foliation of some of them having been cut by the binder's knife; but, as J. P. Barbier-Mueller pointed out, who had not hesitated to acquire it despite its weak margins, this is not the kind of book one can hope to find, more beautiful, while waiting a few more years. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°52 ("Probably Guy's collection is destined to remain, for ever, the prey of bibliomaniacs, rather than lovers of fine verse"). - Picot, Rothschild, n°2948. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 315-316. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°387.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 55 - GUY DE TOURS (Michel Guy, dit). - Les Premières œuvres poétiques et souspirs amoureux. Paris, David Douceur, 1602. In-12, grained calf, cold fillet, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). Second issue of the original 1598 edition, copies of which had sold poorly, with a title renewed to 1602. It is also rare: according to the CCFr, no copies are preserved in French public collections. J. P. Barbier-Mueller has described a peculiarity of this copy: cahier D has 14 leaves instead of 12, as leaves 42 and 43 are duplicates, in which the omitted line of sonnet XIIII is restored. From the Desmeure library (printed bookplate). Light staining in some quires; small worm holes at foot of quires M, N, O and P, sometimes restored. Heads, spines and corners restored. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°53. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°388.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 56 - GUYDE (Philibert). - La Colombiere, & Maison rustique [...]. Paris, Jamet Mettayer, s.d. [ca. 1586-1588]. In-8, brown calf, gilt fillet, gilt cartouche in center, ornate spine, gilt edges (period binding). Edition dedicated to Cardinal Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Maine and Governor of the Duchy of Burgundy, and enlarged from the 1583 original. The only printed work by Philibert Guide, known as Hégémon (1535-1595), a poet and fabulist from Chalon-sur-Saône, La Colombière is part of a body of 16th-century literary texts celebrating rustic life and the beauties of the countryside, the most famous of which is Claude Gauchet's Le Plaisir de la vie rustique (1583). This work, which is rare and sought-after, includes a Description des douze moys & quatre saisons de l'année, avec enseignement de ce que le laboureur doit faire par chaque moys, and the Épithètes poétiques des arbres, plantes, herbes, animaux terrestres et aquatiques, des pierres précieuses et des métaux. Also included are the Fables morales for which the author is renowned, hymns and various poems, including this moving Chant funèbre on the death of his wife Estiennette Villemenot: [...] Je veux par cy apres, ainsi que le Butor, / Demeurer solitaire, & en vray Tourterelle / Plaindre, gemir, pleurer ma compagne fidele... Fine copy. Some foxing and spotting, last leaf a little damaged. Binding badly restored and faded. Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 309-310. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°389.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 57 - HEUDON (Jean). - Saint Clouaud tragedy. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599. In-12, black morocco, gilt fillet, gilt numeral in center, smooth spine with full title, smooth edges (Honegger). Extremely rare first edition. Tragedy based on the life of the Merovingian prince Saint Cloud (Clodoald), grandson of Clovis, who renounced the throne of France after the death of his father Clodomir and the assassination of his brothers by his uncles Childebert and Clotaire. Fine italic printing. Bound in the collector's cipher. Brunet, t. III, col. 147. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 395.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 58 - HEUDON (Jean). - Pyrrhe tragedy. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599. In-12, black morocco, gilt fillet, gilt numeral in center, smooth spine with long title (Honegger). Second edition of this tragedy, whose title refers to Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, who took part in the Trojan War. The first appears to have appeared in 1598 (only one copy is known to exist, in the Arsenal). A fine impression by Raphaël du Petit-Val, who published numerous plays for the Rouen theater in the early 17th century. Bound in the collector's cipher. Brunet, t. III, col. 147. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°394.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 59 - LA BODERIE (Guy Le Fèvre de). - Diverses meslanges poetiques. Paris, Pour Robert Le Mangnier, 1582. In-16, midnight-blue, Jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Binding from the second half of the 19th century). Collection of poems by Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie (1541-1598), a Norman poet who was a fervent disciple of the Kabbalist Guillaume Postel and worked in Antwerp for Plantin as editor, translator and proofreader. The edition opens on the verso of the title with a sonnet signed L'un guide orfée, which is the poet's anagram (Guidon Le Fèvre). It contains mainly autobiographical verses, pieces dedicated to friends from Normandy, and poems of esoteric and cabalistic inspiration (one of which is addressed to Pic de La Mirandole). Three epitaphs are particularly noteworthy: the Scerafin volé, epitaph of the late Jean Le Fèvre de La Boderie, brother of the author, the epitaph on the daughter of M. de Renouart, who by sinister fortune was burned in a house fire in Rouen, and the Épitaphe d'un hermaphrodite. There is also a sonnet Contre Machiavel and an ode to cosmographer André Thevet. There are three editions (or issues?) of this work at different dates (1578, 1579 and 1582), all addressed to Robert Le Mangnier and having the same number of pages, with the same typos (cf. the critical edition by Rosanna Gorris published by Droz in 1993, pp. 36 ff). A fine copy. Picot, Rothschild, n°2930 (for the edition dated 1579). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°470 (indication of first edition).

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 60 - LA GESSÉE (Jean de). - Les Premières œuvres françoyses. Premier volume. Anvers, De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, 1583. 4 volumes in 3 volumes in-4, havana morocco, Du Seuil decoration framing the boards, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Binding of the second half of the 19th century). First and only extremely rare collective edition of the works of Protestant poet Jean de La Gessée. It was missing from the rich poetic collections of Nodier, Viollet-le-Duc and Herpin. According to J. P. Barbier-Mueller's meticulous count, this gigantic collection of over 1,500 pages comprises a total of 1,841 pieces, most of them previously unpublished. It is divided into four parts, grouped under the titles Jeunesses, Meslanges, Amours and Discours poétiques. The first is a collection of long poems, many of which evoke writers and poets of the period (such as Postel, Du Bartas, Pierre de Brach, Robert Garnier, Baïf, Ronsard, Belleau or Jean Dorat) or are dedicated to great personalities such as the King of Navarre, Henri III, Queen Elisabeth, the Duc de Joyeuse and others. The title is printed in a large woodcut architectural frame. A fine portrait of the author at the age of 31, finely engraved on copper by Jean Wierix, adorns the work: it was reused in the 17th century as a portrait of Ronsard and reproduced as such to this day (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). Along with Houwaert's Pegasides pleyn (1582), this is the finest collection of poems printed by Plantin (cf. Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, cat. Bibliothèque nationale, 1954, no. 284). Jean de La Gessée (whose name is sometimes spelt La Jessée) was secretary to François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, and had accompanied his master to the Netherlands in the early 1580s, where the latter had been called to become the new sovereign. It was there, in Antwerp, on the presses of Plantin-Moretus that he had his works printed, no doubt thanks to the prince's protection. The mention Premier volume on the title page suggests that a sequel was planned, but it never saw the light of day; after the failure of his reign, Prince François and the French were expelled from the country, and Jean de La Gessée was unable to continue his publishing venture: It is even probable that the people of Antwerp, in their resentment against the French prince and the gentlemen who had surrounded him, destroyed most of the copies of volume one that had remained in the Plantin warehouse, which would explain their great rarity (Picot). The Rothschild copy contained a leaf printed in civil type, inserted after the title, which is not found here, nor in the copy in the Hector de Backer library (cf. cat. I, 1926, no. 380). A superb copy, perfectly established in the 19th century. The 15 leaves of table and privilege at the end of the fourth part are here in facsimile in a separate third volume bound identically to the other two. The absence of these leaves, noted after the acquisition of the copy at a sale in Troyes in 2000, hardly prevented J. P. Barbier-Mueller from fully enjoying his new poetic-bibliophilic treasure: [...] I considered my acquisition in a less gloomy light. I now owned all the poems contained in this enormous publication. The book was incredibly rare, and no doubt a bookseller would have charged me a huge price, even with a defect that I had to accept for the pleasure of reading "all of La Gessée". There are particular cases where one must accept a Venus de Milo without arms, or a Victory of Samothrace without a head. So my joy today is (almost) unmixed! The facsimile was made from the BnF copy, at the request of the collector who wrote this autograph note in pencil on the colophon of the new volume: "The extreme rarity of the book led me to consider that the text alone counted... I could never have owned it in its entirety, and the tables are not "text". The second volume, containing volumes III and IV, has been settled. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°2. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°77. - Picot, Rothschild, n°750. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°418.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 61 - [LA GUESLE (Jacques de)]. - Le Polimetrie, ou le moyen. Contre, Tout, Quelquechoze, & Rien. I. M. D. L. G. Auverg. Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1588. In-8, garnet, Jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (R. Laurent). First edition of this pamphlet against the League, formerly attributed to Jean Passerat but believed to be by Jacques de La Guesle, a magistrate from Auvergne. It is dedicated to Achille de Harlay, First President of the Parliament of Paris. The verse piece printed on the verso of the title, dedicated to Les Trois chantres de Rien, de Quelquechoze, & Tout, is just as mysterious as the title of this anonymous work. Small light stains on title. Bound in suite: - PASSERAT (Jean) and Philippe GIRARD. Nihil. Henrico Memmio, pro xeniis. Per Joannem Passeratium. Something. By Philippes Girard Vandomois. Paris, Estienne Prévosteau, 1587. - DESPREZ]. Tout. Au Tout-Puissant. Paris, Guillaume Auvray, s.d. [1587]. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, no. 4 (Nihil), 5 (Tout) and 6 (Le Polimetrie). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°210 and 593-594.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 62 - LA MOTTE-MESSEMÉ (François Le Poulchre de). - The Seven Books of Honest Leisure. [...] Each titled after one of the Planettes. [...] Plus, un meslange de divers Poëmes, d'Elegies, Stances & Sonnets. Paris, Marc Orry [De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Hury], 1587. In-12, olive-green morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine decorated à la grotesque, interior roulette, gilt edges (18th-century binding). First edition of the first poetic collection by this poet from the Landes region, a former soldier who gave up his military career to devote himself to poetry. François Le Poulchre de La Motte-Messemé, born in Mont-de-Marsan in 1546, joined the army at the age of thirteen and fought in the king's troops, notably as captain of fifty men-at-arms. He took part in all the assaults and battles, particularly at Jarnac in 1569, where he witnessed the death of the Prince de Condé at the hands of Coligny, and at the siege of Poitiers the same year. In 1572, unfortunate events prompted him to lay down his arms and take up his pen. The author's woodcut coat of arms, featuring the collar of the Order of Saint-Michel awarded to him by Charles IX, appears on the verso of the title. Les Honnestes loisirs is a long autobiography of the author, from his birth to 1572, the year of the marriage of Marguerite de France (Queen Margot) to Henri de Navarre, the future Henri IV. The poem forms a kind of chronicle of the early Wars of Religion. It is completed by love verses and a mixture of various poems dedicated to important Court figures and other 16th-century poets. Pleasant 18th-century binding. The second title leaf is in facsimile. The first 12 leaves are a little shorter in margin. Spine faded. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°5. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°126. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°423.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 63 - LA NOUE (Odet de). - Paradoxe, que les adversités sont plus nécessaires que les prosperites: et qu'entre toutes, l'estat d'une estroitte prison est le plus doux et le plus proffitable. By the Seigneur de Teligny. S.l. [Genève], Par Jean de Tournes, Imp. du Roy, à Lyon, 1588. In-8, brown jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Very rare first edition of this long poem of 1200 alexandrines. An edition was also published the same year in La Rochelle, by Haultin. An astonishing apology for prison, written by the soldier-poet Odet de La Noue during his captivity at Tournai Castle. The poem is dedicated to his father, François de La Noue, a famous captain nicknamed the Huguenot Bayard or Bras-de-Fer. Odet, who remained imprisoned in Flanders for four or five years under the Spanish yoke, endeavors to demonstrate that the good Christian can paradoxically live with the deprivation of freedom; this ascetic life has some advantages, according to him, in particular that of keeping oneself away from all forms of temptation, thus avoiding molding in laziness in the midst of delights or "rotting" from the filth of vice: On estime aujourd'huy le comble de misère / Une estroitte prison. I maintain the opposite. [...] Puis que, quoy que des maux, dont on a tant de crainte, / La prison soit celuy dont on fait plus de plainte, / C'est neantmoins l'estat plus comblé de plaisir, / Et plus utile encor que lon puisse choisir. The title is framed in arabesques and bears the typographical mark of Jean de Tournes, who used civil type to print part of the title and the two dedication pages. From the libraries of Comte de Lignerolles (1894, n°996), Édouard Moura (1923, n°298) and Albert-Louis Natural (1987, n°87). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°7. - Cartier, no. 677. - GLN-3323 (10 examples listed, including this one, the others in institutions). - Picot, Rothschild, n°3276. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°425.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 64 - LA PÉRUSE (Jean de). - Les Œuvres. Avec quelques autres diverses Poësies de Cl. Binet. Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1577. 2 parts in one in-16 volume, contemporary soft vellum. Very rare second edition of the Œuvres de ce poète angoumoisin, a short-lived member of the Pléiade, who died at the age of 25. This is a reprint of the edition published in Paris in 1573 by Claude Binet. Jean Bastier de La Péruse appears like a shooting star in the constellation of poets gravitating around Ronsard. Born in the Angoulême region around 1529-1530, he arrived in Paris at an early age to study, and in 1553 joined Ronsard's circle. Then, in 1554, he went to Poitiers, where he met Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jacques Tahureau and Guillaume Bouchet, with whom he forged a close friendship; it was there that his meteoric rise came to an end, swept away in the last months of the year by an illness. The loss of this poet was immense, as the epitaph written by Ronsard suggests: Cours donc eschevelée, & dis que La Péruse / Est mort, & qu'auiourd'huy / Le second ornement de la Tragique Muse / Est mort avecques luy (ff. 85v°-86). The edition is divided into 2 parts. The first contains the five acts of Médée - one of the first classical French tragedies, along with Jodelle's Cléopâtre - followed by some 50 poems by La Péruse: among these odes, chansons, sonnets, mignardises, elegies and étrennes, we note the Ode à un vieux blasonneur, a sonnet to Ronsard, prince des poètes françois, others to Muret, Tahureau, etc, the pieces À la Francine by De Baïf and on J. Tahureau and his Admirée, etc. Also noteworthy is Jean Boiceau de La Borderie's ode to La Péruse, fuyans de Poytiers pour la peste, in which the latter urges his friend to reassure him with his gentle poetry and tame his tragic Hidres. This part ends with the Pitoyable histoire du prince de Albanie, infortuné d'Amour, in prose. The second part, in continuous pagination, is occupied by Claude Binet's Diverses poésies, poems full of Ronsardian reminiscences: two of them deal with rustic pleasures, entitled Le Chant forestier ou le chasseur, a nine-page bucolic piece dedicated to Amadis Jamyn, and La Gaieté du printemps, to his friends, inviting them to the fields. An attractive copy in contemporary vellum. Signature in Nuper Leo ink on the title page, believed to be that of Pierre Noël de La Houssaye (1895-1966), a Blésian man of letters. Staining at beginning and end of volume. Small stain on spine. Baudrier, t. III, p. 337. - J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1 n°91, III n°70 and IV-1 n°41. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 206-207. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°81 and 427.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 65 - LA ROQUE (Siméon-Guillaume de). - Les Œuvres, reveues, et augmentées de plusieurs Poësies outre les précédentes Impressions. Paris, Veuve Claude de Monstr'Œil, 1609. In-12, marbled calf, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, red title page, gilt edges (18th-century binding). First complete edition of the works of this poet from Clermont-Ferrand, whose verses are harmonious and full of grace. Siméon-Guillaume de La Roque was a disciple of Desportes, whom he met in the early 1570s, and an imitator of the Italian neo-Petrarquists of the 16th century. In his dedication to Queen Marguerite, he speaks of poetry as a precious gift, and describes it as a science that should be carefully called Maistresse de la vie, fleur de l'éloquence, lumière de la doctrine, doux aliment de l'âme, & trompe de la Renommée des Dieux. Printed in italics, the edition includes many previously unpublished pieces. It includes the Amours de Phyllis, the Amours de Caritée, the Amours de Narsize, the pastoral La Chaste bergère, stanzas, sonnets, songs, elegies, Christian works and more. There are also sizains entitled Mascarades des chasseurs (pp. 375-376). A copy bearing the arms of Le Fèvre de Caumartin, from the library of Dr. Lucien-Graux. Missing the last leaf containing the excerpt of the privilege. Title restored in inner margin. Small hole deleting a word on verso of folio C2, tiny ink stain affecting text on folio O12 with deletion of a few characters. Paper a little scorched. Some marginal wormholes, not serious. Hinges, nerves and headpieces restored. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°20. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°139. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°441.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 66 - LA ROQUE (Siméon-Guillaume de). - Les Amours de Caristée. - The Continuation of Ariosto's Angelica. - Les Heureuses amours de Cloridan. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1594. Together 3 works in one volume in-12, fawn calf, cold fillet, ornate spine, black title page, red edges (18th century binding). Collection of three opuscules, all in first editions. The collection, compiled in the 18th century, includes Les Amours de Charistée, the author's second collection of amorous verse, La Continuation de l'Angélique and Les Heureuses amours de Cloridan. Elegant impressions by Raphaël du Petit-Val. From the library of the Dukes of Arenberg, with the large armorial bookplate engraved by Vermorcken and bearing the motto Christus protector meus. Perforation on folio E1. In Les Amours de Cloridan: spine glued to first line of folio 47, and last 3 folios slightly yellowed. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°10-12. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°431-433.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 67 - LA ROQUE (Siméon-Guillaume de). - Collection of 6 works in an in-12 volume, red morocco, jansenist, monogram stamped at the bottom of the spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru 1868). Collection of 6 poetic works by Sieur de La Roque, a poet from Clermont-Ferrand who was a disciple of Desportes and an imitator of the Italian neo-Petraquists of the 16th century. The pieces it contains were all sold separately: - Les Premières œuvres... [Les Amours de Phyllis]. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1600 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°19.) - Les Amours de Caristée. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 14). - Continuation of Ariosto's Angelica. Ibid (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 15). - Les Heureuses amours de Cloridan. Ibid (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 16.) - Les Amours de Pirame et Tisbée. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1600 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 18). - La Chaste bergère, pastorale. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 17). Only the Amours de Pirame et Tisbée are in the original edition. Les Premières œuvres contains the Amours de Phyllis, the poet's first collection of amorous verse, here in its fourth edition, the original having appeared in 1590. A fine copy, with the figure on the spine of Jules Marsan. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°435-440.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 68 - LA TOUCHE (Michel Quillian, sieur de). - The Last Week, or Consumption of the World. Paris, François Huby, 1596. In-12, jansenist midnight-blue morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Extremely rare first edition of this poem on the theme of the apocalypse. Michel Quillian, sieur de La Touche, a Breton gentleman who died in 1614, divided his poem into seven days, in imitation of Du Bartas' Semaine, but in the opposite direction: while Du Bartas sang of the creation of the world, this poet set out to describe its destruction, endeavoring in the first day to prove that the world will come to an end. Wood-engraved portrait of Henri IV on the second flyleaf, followed by a quatrain. After proving that the world is perishable, he deals, day by day, with the signs heralding the catastrophe, listing the opening of the seals: War, Famine, Plague, the appearance of the Antichrist. [...] As all these signs seemed to manifest themselves in France during the civil wars, the Breton gentleman deemed it useful to take the initiative: his poem was intended to incite readers to repent and prepare their souls for salvation (N. Ducimetière). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°27. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., p. 425. - Viollet-le-Duc, p. 365. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 450.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 69 - LAUDUN (Pierre de). - L'Art poétique. Divisé en cinq livres. Paris, Pour Anthoine du Brueil, 1598. In-12, contemporary soft vellum. First edition of this theoretical discourse on poetry, in the vein of those by Sébillet (1548), Claude de Boissière (1554), Peletier du Mans (1555) and Ronsard (1565), poets from whom Pierre de Laudun drew much of the material for his work. Copy dated 1598 (not 1597). Born in 1575 in the duchy of Uzès, Pierre de Laudun, sieur d'Aigaliers, was a lawyer at the parliament of Toulouse, then a prosecutor at the college of Narbonne in Paris. He died of the plague in 1629. On the front cover, in yellowed ink, is a handwritten note about the author signed Rodolphe Ernest de Rossel-Fontarèches and dated 1821. Handwritten anagram on first flyleaf: nottaire royal tire à toy Larron. Small marginal wetness to a few leaves. Volume slightly detached from spine. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°28. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°451.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 70 - LAUDUN (Pierre de). - La Franciade. Paris, Pour Anthoine du Brueil, 1604. In-12, midnight-blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (David). First edition of this heroic poem inspired by Ronsard's Franciade. The work opens with an ode pindarique addressed to Henri IV, and continues with a warning from Robert Delaudun, the author's uncle, aumônier du Roy, Principal of the Collège de Narbonne: he explains that the manuscript of this Franciade had been languishing for five or six years in his nephew's drawer, who was, we learn, so disgusted by the poor reception given to his earlier publications (the poems and L'Art poétique) that he no longer wished to divulge any of his writings. A fine copy, with a relay title dated 1604 instead of 1603. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°29. - Des Valois à Henri IV, cat. Berès, n°190. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°452.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 71 - LA VALLETTRYE (sieur de). - Les Œuvres poetiques. Paris, Estienne Vallet, 1602. In-12, fawn calf, cold fillet, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). First edition. Dedicated to Monseigneur de Rosny (i.e. the Duc de Sully), Superintendant des Finances & Grand-Maistre de l'Artillerie de France, this work contains numerous pieces, especially on the theme of love: sonnets, stanzas, mottoes, ballets, epitaphs, Christian poetry, eglogues, as well as a pastorelle entitled La Chasteté repentie. Among these pieces are Faux honneur des dames, l'Amour mercenaire et fripponnier, De la naissance du sein de Madame Gabrielle duchesse de Beaufort, De la chasse du merle, Pour un présent fait à une Damoiselle d'un boudin de pourceau, and À deux laides. He also wrote verses on the poetry of Scévole de Sainte-Marthe. Little is known of the poet Sieur de La Vallettrye (or La Vallettrie), cited by Lachèvre in his bibliography of Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques (pp. 259-261). La Vallettrie's poems are sought-after for their linguistic and figurative turns of phrase. It is true that some of them are not lacking in piquancy, like this sonnet entitled À une dame, Comparaison d'Elle à une Montre: [...] ie vous promets bien que vous serez montée, / Le soir & le matin, & quelquesfois le iour (ff. 40-41). On the title, a handsome copper-engraved vignette with a motto taken from Virgil. The copy belonged to Joseph-Antoine de Crozat, Marquis de Tugny (1696-1751), conseiller au Parlement, with his handwritten bookplate on the verso of the title (Ex-bibliotheca D. Crozat) (cat. 1751, no. 1266). Trace of ex-libris on upper flyleaf. Handwritten note at bottom of flyleaf: cat. de Nyon, 17273, double for sale. Some current titles have been cut by the bookbinder's knife. Crack at top of one spine. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°455.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 72 - LA VILLE (Léonard de). - Dacrygelasie spirituelle du Treschrestien Roy de France Charles IX. Sur les combats & victoires obtenues à l'encontre de ses seditieux & rebelles Heretiques. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, 1572. In-8, dark green morocco, triple gilt fillet, grotesquely decorated spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Bauzonnet). First edition of this panegyric of Charles IX, published in the aftermath of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacres. The work of a virulent Catholic controversialist from Lyon, the Dacrygelasie (lamentation and mockery) predicts that the Pope will make Charles IX Emperor of Christendom. A fine copy, finely bound by Bauzonnet. It came from the library of Robert Earl of Crewe (bookplate) and appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog Des Valois à Henri IV (n°191). Some light foxing. Baudrier, t. III, p. 278. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°456.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 73 - LE CARON (Louis). - La Claire. Or, De la prudence de droit, Dialogue premier. Plus, La clarté amoureuse. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1554. In-8, limp vellum, remnants of binding (contemporary binding). Rare first edition, decorated on the title with a woodcut portrait of the author's muse, repeated on the last flyleaf. The first literary work in French by lawyer and poet Louis Le Caron (1534-1613), published in Paris on his return from the University of Bourges. It contains dialogues on the philosophy of law, exchanged by the author with the aforementioned Claire, a virtuous and learned lady with whom he fell in love and whom he took as a guide in his studies (cf. Cécile Alduy, Politique des "Amours", Droz, 2007, p. 193 et seq.). Numerous love poems are grouped together at the end of the volume, under the title La Clarté amoureuse, a section that occupies 40 leaves, including an ode to Ronsard, prince of the Poetes François. The epistle is dedicated to Claire's cousin: [...] par ton conseil ie metz en lumiere, le dialogue fidel témoin de la constante amitié, que ta cousine & moi faisoit [...]. I aioute quelques carmes François, non pour gaigner le nom de Poëte, & meriter la compagnie des divins esprits, qui par leurs chantz immortalisez eternissent leurs dames, mais pour de décrire l'ardeur de mon desir amoureus, & en lui esteindre toute la mémoire du vulgaire amour [...]. Copy in contemporary vellum. Notebook h detached but still holding to the binding. The two portraits show old traces of redaction. Play in the binding (broken strings), minor vellum loss at the covers. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°32. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°46. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°457.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 74 - LE CARON (Louis). - La Poésie. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1554. In-8, midnight-blue morocco, gilt foliage medallion at center, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Partly first edition of this poetic collection, published ten months after La Claire (see previous lot). Of its 143 pieces, 94 are unpublished and 49 are taken from La Claire, often with changes in verse. Among them is a long poem in decasyllables, entitled Le Démon d'amour (ff. 28v°-38). Almost a year after the publication of La Claire, Le Caron decided to publish all the verses written for his friend in a collection entitled La Poésie. [...] far from being a literary tomb dedicated to mourning the departed, [the work] sang of a young woman still alive, a tenderly loved friend [...]. In the end, the poet decided to publish his poems as if he had presented them to the girl while she was still alive (N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., pp. 174 and 177). La Claire and La Poésie are the only two poetic works published by Le Caron, who then turned exclusively to law and philosophy: they are both rare. Handwritten bookplate faded at the bottom of the title. Old handwritten note in the margin of folio 67 v°, almost faded. A very fine copy, from the libraries of Chaponay (1863, no. 309), Édouard Turquety (1868, no. 137), Bancel (1882, no. 273) and Édouard Moura (1923, no. 259). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 33. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°458.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 75 - LE DIGNE (Nicolas). - Les Fleurettes du premier meslange. Gathered by A. de La Forest, Esquire, Sieur du Plessis. Paris, Jeremie Périer, 1601. In-12, midnight blue morocco, gilt trim, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Duru 1847). First edition of these love poems by Nicolas Le Digne, sieur de L'Espine-Fontenay, including some 220 sonnets, stanzas, pastorelles, odes, an elegy and more. These include the poem À un rossignol, verses for a Mascarade de six fous, a Mascarade rustique and a Mascarade des mariniers, and Eaux des fontaines de Pougues. A native of Champagne, born in the mid-16th century and dying in 1611, Le Digne's friends included Béroalde de Verville, Durant de La Bergerie and painter-poet Daniel du Monstier, whose "wise hand" he praises in the first poem. Le Digne bore arms for several years early in his life, and is even said to have been wounded by a cannonball, an event he no doubt recounts in sonnet LI (f. 38): Au bruict tout foudroyant d'un canonnier tonnerre / [...] Au plus fort de la charge il tire contre moy. A fine copy, with fine provenance: Duplessis (1856, no. 391), Chaponay (1863, no. 356), Turquety (1868, no. 273), Bancel (1882, no. 359) and Herpin (1903, no. 255). Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, pp. 265-267. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°466.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 76 - LE JARS (Louis). - Lucell [sic] tragi-comédie en prose françoise. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1596. In-12, black morocco, boards framed with a gilt fillet and decorated with a diamond-rectangle pattern drawn by scrolls of fawn morocco, gilt numeral in the center, ornate spine, fawn morocco lining, chocolate brown moire endpapers (Modern binding). Tragicomedy in prose, set against a backdrop of love and poisons, published in four successive editions between 1576 and 1596. This edition contains numerous apologetic pieces, including a quatrain by Ronsard. Nothing is known about Louis Le Jars, except that he was a relative of Marie Le Jars de Gournay, Montaigne's daughter-in-law. A few cuffs slightly damaged by the bookbinder's knife, otherwise a pleasant copy bound in the collector's cypher. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°58. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°473.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 77 - LE MASLE (Jean). - Les Nouvelles recreations poetiques. Contenans aucuns discourses, non moins recreatifs & plaisans, que sententieux & graves. Paris, Pour Jean Poupy, 1580. In-12, fawn calf, double cold fillet, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). A very rare first edition. The work contains various pieces of verse (sonnets, odes, epitaphs, etc.) addressed by the poet to protectors or friends. Of particular note is an interesting Discours contenant en brief l'Origine des Angevins : ensemble des Manceaux & autres nations Gaulloises, a long poem sur l'Excellence des Poëtes & de leur honneste liberté, in which Marot, Dorat, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Baïf and Jodelle are quoted, a terrible Discours des incommoditez de la vieillesse, and a piece addressed to Ronsard and Baïf vrays ornemens de nostre poësie Françoise. Born into a family of minor nobility from Anjou, Jean Le Masle had studied in Paris under Turnèbe and Dorat. His first publication dates back to 1573, and is a hate poem mocking the assassination of Admiral Coligny during the St. Bartholomew's Day. Early handwritten bookplate on title. Small worm gallery in the margin of leaves C12 and D1. Fragile hinges. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°38. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2933. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°477.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 78 - LE ROCQUEZ (Robert). - Le Miroir d'éternité, comprenant les sept aages du monde, les quatre Monarchies, & diversité des regnes d'iceluy. En la fin duquel sont contenus le general Jugement de Dieu, la peine des Reprouvez, & la gloire des Predestinez. Caen, De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Le Chandelier, 1589. In-8, lavaliered morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Hardy). Very rare first edition of this youthful poem by a poet and priest from Carentan (Normandy) for a perfect & lively cognoissance of this sovereign God. Dedicated to Prince François de Valois, it was published by his nephew many years after the author's death. The author gives to view the hystorial discourse of the whole old & new Testament, beginning with the eternity of God, the creation of the universe, & machine of the world, the nature & property of the Angel, & of man, & their ruin, all the most famous and memorable stories from the creation of Adam to the 16th century, the origin and dynasty of several monarchies, the foundations of several ancient cities, and most of the ioyeuses, & fructueux poësies, escrites & narrées au livre de la transformation des bees. The poet's prophetic vision of the Last Judgment occupies ff. 119-149. Printed in Caen. The typographical mark adorning the title is that of Pierre Le Chandelier: it is unknown to Silvestre, Marques typographiques, who reproduces only two other marks by this Norman printer. Title restored, with a few letters redone in ink on verso. Small restoration to the upper corner of about fifteen leaves at the end of the volume. Missing the last 4 leaves (Aa5-8), containing sonnets and other poetry, including 14 sonnets by Pierre Lombard. Frère, t. II, p. 219 ("Poème singulier"). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°480.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 79 - LORTIGUE (Annibal de). - Les Poemes divers, où il est traicté de Guerre, d'Amour, gayetez, Poincts de controverses, Hymnes, Sonnets, & autres Poësies. Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1617. 2 volumes in-12, bound in two volumes, granite calf, cold fillet, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (Early 18th century binding). Rare first edition of this collection of poems by a Provençal poet-soldier. Born and died in Apt, Provence, Annibal de Lortigue (or d'Ortigue) (1570-1630) was as much a man of the sword as of the pen: he was one of those gallant, valiant and devout gentlemen, who fell as easily to his knees before a crucifix as before an appetizing bodice (J. P. Barbier-Mueller), but had no poet's soul, according to Viollet-le-Duc, who describes his amorous sonnets as miserable. The work contains several facetious pieces, including Louanges [sic] des femmes, la gloire & la perfection de leur sexe, le Vieillard amoureux, and l'étrange Délice des galleux. Also of note are the Discours sur la nourriture des Princes, the Hymne de l'ortie, the Plaisir rustique, the sonnet Pour le plaisir champestre, as well as the interesting and lengthy poem entitled L'Hymne du formage [sic]: For Lortigue, cheese, an absolute aphrodisiac, stirs lovers to the hottest elations, far better than truffles, artichokes, cock's crest and other pistachios (Oberlé). Copy of Frédéric Lachèvre, a specialist in facetious poetry and literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, with his bookplate. Handwritten bookplate dated 1688 on verso of title. Staining to first 20 leaves. Small loss at upper head, upper hinge a little rubbed. Oberlé, Fastes..., n°787 ("of great rarity"). - Picot, Rothschild, n°822. - Viollet le Duc, I, p. 382. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°491.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 80 - LOYS (Jean et Jacques). - Les Œuvres poétiques de Jean Loys, Douysien, licentié és droicts. - Les Œuvres poétiques de Jacques Loys, docteur és droits et poete lauré. Douai, De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Auroy, 1612. Together 2 volumes small in-8, brick morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (J. Prat). Posthumous collective first edition of the works of Jean and Jacques Loys, father and son, little-known jurisconsults and poets from Douai. The works of these two poets, who died in 1610 and 1611 respectively, contain mainly royal songs and ballads on pious subjects. The most interesting pieces are occasional epitaphs, sonnets and other verses, addressed to friends or important figures on the occasion of remarkable events. Among the works by father and son, we note the Honneurs de Jean & Jacques Loys, an acrostic Sonnet by the late Jean Bellegambe, an excellent painter in his day, the Épitaphe d'un hermaprodite (sic) qui par eau, par fer & croix... meure, / Masle femelle, & tous deux à mesme heure, un Discours sur la ruine advenue sur la ville de Hesdin par horrible tempeste le 25 juillet 1589, ainsi que ces deux pièces : Aux haineurs des muses et Aux thraistres. From the libraries of Baron de Warenghien, Joseph Renard (1881, no. 652) and Denis du Péage. Small restoration in the blank of the introductory leaf *3. Spine faded. Copy with short lateral margins. Duthilloeul, Galerie douaisienne, pp. 260-263. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 356-357. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°493-494.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 81 - MAISONFLEUR (Étienne L'Huillier, sieur de). - Les Cantiques. Œuvre excellent, & plein de pieté : Auquel de nouveau ont été adioustez les Quatrains spirituels de l'honneste Amour, par Yves Rouspeau [...]. Paris, Matthieu Guillemot, 1584. 2 parts in one volume in-12, blond calf, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, burgundy title-pieces, interior lace, gilt edges (Binding of the second half of the 19th century). Partly first edition of this anthology of religious poetry, first published in Antwerp in 1580. Dedicated to Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, it is augmented by the Quatrains spirituels de l'honneste amour by the saintongeois pastor and poet Yves Rouspeau (1540-1601), in separate folios with a separate title page (36 leaves). The Quatrains spirituels, here in their original edition, condemn the pleasures of the flesh, drunkenness, gluttony, bawdiness and lechery: they open with a preface in which the poet exhorts the poets of the time and dirty writers to come and praise holy Love with him, instead of reveling in poetic fables and singing immodest Love to please the ears of perverts. The other pieces appeared in earlier editions; in addition to Cantiques by Sieur de Maisonfleur, a Huguenot poet from Bordeaux, there are Prières et sainctes doléances de Job by Rémy Belleau, poems by Philippe Desportes, Christian sonnets from Marin Le Saulx's Theanthropogamie, a lament and a prayer from Th. de Sautemont's Regrets & souspirs chrestiens, and two Hymnes chrétiens by Joachim du Bellay. From the library of Mme Colin de Saint-Marc, Coulommiers, with her early 19th-century printed bookplate. Minor rubbing to binding, otherwise a pleasant copy, well bound in blond calf. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°61 (for Rouspeau). - Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies du XVIe siècle, p. 207. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°499 and 784.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 82 - MASSAC (Raymond et Charles de). - OVIDE. - Métamorphoses d'Ovide, mises en vers françois: par Raimond et Charles de Massac, Père & Fils. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1603. In-8, contemporary soft vellum. First edition of this verse translation of the first seven books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is the work of two poets from Agen: the physician Raymond de Massac, who died in 1603 and wrote, among other works, a poem on the Fontenes de Pougues, and his son Charles, a lawyer at the Parlement de Paris, who was an early associate of his father's work. The Massac translation contains a large number of interesting and pleasant verses. A copy that belonged to Frédéric Lachèvre (1855-1943), bibliographer and specialist in 16th and 17th century poetry, with his bookplate. Staining affecting the first 4 leaves, including the title. Old call number stamped in black ink on the title (faded) and on the seventh leaf. Volume slightly detached from spine, circular marks on first cover. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°3. - Balsamo & Simonin, n°391. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°508.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 83 - MONTCHRESTIEN (Antoine de). - Les Tragédies. Édition nouvelle augmentée par l'Autheur. Rouen, Martin de La Motte, 1627. In-8, fawn calf, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, red speckled edges (17th century binding). Partly first edition, dedicated to the Prince de Condé, of the tragedies by Antoine de Montchrestien (1575-1621), a Norman poet and playwright best known for his famous Traicté de l'œconomie politique (1615). It is enlarged by the Tombeau de Dame Barbe Guiffard, wife of Cl. Groulard, president of the parliament: this piece in verse and prose, says Paul Lacroix in the catalog of the Soleinne dramatic library (I, 1843, n°859), is there only as an indirect tribute to the memory of the author, who died in rebellion on October 7, 1621, and was condemned to be dragged on the rack, broken and burned. From the library of Dr. Pillin of Rouen (bookplate). Stain on lower corner of leaf Ll2. Corners, covers and spines restored. Tchemerzine, IV, p. 917. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°528.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 84 - MONTENAY (Georgette de). - Emblematum christianorum centuria. [...] Cent emblemes chrestiens. Zurich, Christophe Froschauer, 1584. In-8, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt numeral in center, spine decorated with the same numeral repeated, tan morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger). First edition in Latin of the famous book of emblems by Georgette de Montenay (1540-1571), Protestant poet and lady-in-waiting to Queen Jeanne d'Albret. It features a portrait of the author and 100 fine emblems engraved in intaglio by Lorraine artist Pierre Woeiriot. Originally published in French in 1567, Georgette de Montenay's Emblèmes et devises chrestiennes occupies a fundamental place in the history of emblematic literature: it is the first book of emblems written by a woman, and the first devoted exclusively to devotion and the sacred world. Washed copy, bound in the collector's cipher. Minor hole in engraving no. 73. Landwehr, Romanic, n°530. - Mortimer, French books, n°380. - Praz, p. 431. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°529.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 85 - [MONTREUX (Nicolas de)]. - The Loves of Cleandre and Domiphille. By which is noticed the perfection of the virtue of Chastity. A book no less delectable than profitable to all true lovers of Chastity. All from the invention of Ollénix du Mont-Sacré. Paris, Veuve de Gabriel Buon, 1597. In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). First edition of this adventure novel in prose mixed with verse, published under the author's usual anagram Ollenix du Mont-Sacré. It is dedicated to Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur and Governor of Brittany, with whom Nicolas de Montreux (1561-1610) took refuge in Nantes after supporting the League. He became his librarian. The work forms the second part of a trilogy entitled L'Œuvre de la Chasteté. The first part had been published in 1595 under the title Œuvre de la Chasteté, which contains the Amours de Criniton et Lydie, and the third, called Les Chastes et fidèles Amours de Criniton et Lydie, appeared in 1599. All of this poet's works are very difficult to find, as J. P. Barbier-Mueller points out. An attractive copy, with fine provenances: P. Desq (1866, no. 703), Comte de Lignerolles (II, 1894, no. 1795), Pierre Louÿs (1930, no. 213) and Edmée Maus. Some light rubbing to binding. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°29. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°541.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 86 - MORENNE (Claude de). - Oraisons funèbres, et tombeaux. Paris, Pierre Bertault, 1605. 4 parts in one volume in-8, marbled basane, cold fillet, ornate spine, small coat of arms and SG numeral repeated, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). First collective edition, partly original, of the works of Claude de Morenne (1550-1606), preacher to King Henri IV and Bishop of Sées. Dedicated to secretary Villeroy, it includes, in addition to various Oraisons funebres et tombeaux (124 ff.), Cantiques spirituels (77 pp.), Quatrains (20 pp.) and Poemes divers (104 pp.). Each part has its own title and pagination. The quatrains number 102. Among the miscellaneous pieces are Le Printemps, a poem celebrating the Printans [which] with a beautiful enamel paints the Fleury field, which the ungrateful cold deprived of its colors, a piece entitled Les Sorciers, an Adieu à la ville de Paris durant la peste (in Latin), a dialogue Sur les remèdes contre l'amour charnel and a poem on the pleasures of rustic life. Handwritten bookplate of the Ste Geneviève library dated 1753 on the title, repeated on f. 41. Small cut at the top of the first endpaper, probably to remove a mention of ownership. Slightly worn binding with cracked hinges, missing lower headpiece and scratched coat of arms in last box. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n° 546-549.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 87 - MOYSSON (le père). - L'Adieu du pecheur aux vanitez. Avec une Tragedie traictant la mort du premier Roy d'Israël. Un Discours de la mort & Passion du Sauveur du monde. - ROUX (Jean). Les Fontaines de Valence. Tournon, Claude Michel, 1610. 2 works in one volume in-12, grained calf, cold fillet, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). Extremely rare Tournon impressions. The stanzas of L'Adieu du pécheur aux vanitez occupy 36 pages and are followed by the tragedy of Saul, the Discourse on the Death and Passion of the Savior of the World and mélanges et autres œuvres saintes. Father Moysson was principal of the humanities college in Valence. Jean Roux's work, which occupies six pages, is a poem celebrating the fountains of Valence, given as a gift to the county bishop. From the Bauffremont library, with their engraved armorial bookplate. Some dampstaining. Upper spine restored. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°550 and 785.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 88 - MURET (Marc-Antoine). - Juvenilia. Paris, Veuve Maurice de La Porte, 1553. In-8, black morocco, boards framed by a gilded fillet and decorated with a diamond-rectangle mosaic of fawn morocco, gilded numeral in the center, spine decorated with the same repeated numeral, chocolate moire lining and endpapers, smooth edges, case (Honegger). First edition of Juvenilia by Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585), an early collection including the tragedy Julius Caesar, 10 elegies, 2 satires, 107 epigrams, 3 epistles and 6 odes. It appeared in 1552-1553. Second state copy, dated 1553 (see Virginie Leroux's critical edition of the text, Droz, 2009, pp. 26-27 and p. 494). The humanist Marc-Antoine Muret counted among his pupils the young Michel de Montaigne, Remy Belleau, Jodelle and others. A friend of Paul Manutius, he was secretary to Hippolytus II d'Este and professor of moral philosophy at the University of Rome. It was during a stay in Paris from 1551 to 1553, where he forged deep friendships with Ronsard, Du Bellay, Dorat and their friends, that he wrote this work. A precious copy bearing the poet's handwritten ex-dono on the title page: Sexto Cal. Decemb. anno 1552 dabat Muretus Vivenotio. It belonged to Pierre Louÿs (autograph note in pencil on a flyleaf of the old binding), then was acquired by Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, who had it bound in his cipher. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°30. - Oberlé, Poètes néo-latins, n°164. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°551.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 89 - NOSTRADAMUS (Michel de Nostredame, dit). - Les Propheties. Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, s.d. - Les Propheties. Centuries VIII, IX, X. Qui n'ont encores jamais esté imprimés. Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, s.d. - Sainte BRIGIDE. Recueil des propheties et revelations, tant anciennes que modernes. Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, 1611. 3 parts in an in-8 volume, contemporary vellum. Rare Troyes edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus and several saints. Copy in contemporary vellum, a little stained. A few quires detached but still attached to the binding, angular wetness on a few leaves. Angular loss to title of second part. Pen marks on endpapers, three armorial wax stamps on last endpaper. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°39. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°569-571.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 90 - NOUVEAU RECUEIL DES PLUS BEAUX VERS DE CE TEMPS. Paris, Toussaint du Bray [De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Pautonnier], 1609. In-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (mid-19th century binding). First edition of the Toussaint de Bray collection, the first collection of poems of the 17th century. Dedicated to Charlotte des Ursins, viscountess of Auchy, Malherbe's muse (the famous Caliste), it contains 167 pieces, 138 of which are unpublished or did not appear in earlier collections. It includes poems by Du Perron, Bertaut, Motin, La Picardière, Davity, Lingendes, Audiguier, not forgetting Malherbe, who is represented with 15 pieces, including 12 new ones. This is the first poetic collection of its kind where each author's pieces are printed together and not scattered throughout the volume. Spine slightly darkened. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésie, I, pp. 46-49. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°917.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 91 - PAQUELIN (Guillaume). - Apologeme pour le grand Homere, contre la reprehension du divin Platon sur aucuns passages d'iceluy. Lyon, Charles Pesnot, 1577. In-4, purple half-chagrin with corners, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, gilt edges (Petit succr de Simier). First edition, dedicated to the illustrious Parlement de Dijon. This rare work, by Beaune-born lawyer Guillaume Paquelin (1575-1632), is the earliest French-language apology for Homer. At the end, it includes a sonnet by the author, addressed to the good city of Beaune, and an Ode on the misery of unrest: [...] Nous souillons misérables / Nos mains de nostre sang, / Et tornons detestables / Le glaive en nos flanc: / Nous appellons en proye / Gens pour nous outrager, / Et quasi comme Troye / Tombons soubz l'estranger. A handwritten note indicates that the volume comes from the Gloria library (sale March 23, 1893). Engraved bookplate Louis Maldant. Washed copy, with some freckling and parts of the text a little faded; old annotations in pen in the margins of a dozen leaves are also faded. Baudrier, t. III, p. 142. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°582.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 92 - [PASQUIER (Étienne)]. - La Jeunesse d'Estienne Pasquier. Et sa suite. Paris, Jean Petit-Pas, 1610. 4 parts in a large in-8 volume, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, spine decorated with repeated numeral, lining and endpapers in chocolate brown moire, smooth edges (Honegger). Partly original collective edition, published by the author himself at the age of 81, under the pseudonym André du Chesne. Divided into four parts, it contains virtually all the writer's literary output, often corrected and expanded. It includes the two Monophile books, the four Colloques d'amour, the 24 Lettres amoureuses, the Jeux poétiques, and the two occasional collections La Puce and La Main. Fine copper-engraved portrait of the author by Thomas de Leu. The copy belonged to Frédéric Lachèvre (1957, no. 377) and appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog Des Valois à Henri IV (no. 261). Formerly in 19th-century green half-chagrin, it has since been bound for the collector with his coat of arms (argent à la bande d'azur chargée de trois cœurs d'or), which is modelled on that of De Thou. Mottling at the head of several quires. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°47. - Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies, 1597-1700, I, p. 270. - Viollet-le-Duc, pp. 369-370. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°591.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 93 - PASQUIER (Étienne). - Le Monophile. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Charles L'Angelier, 1555. In-8, caramel morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Thibaron-Joly). Second edition of this dialogue on love between three young men and a maiden, interspersed with verse, dealing mainly with marriage and fidelity. As rare as the first, published a year earlier, it was shared between several publishers, including Charles L'Angelier. This is the first book by Étienne Pasquier (1529-1615), a humanist, poet and magistrate best known for his work Les Recherches de la France. It contains this assessment of French poetry (p. 120): Voyez je vous suply un Pétrarque, un Sannasar, un Bérule: & pour ne m'éloigner de mon temps, ni de mon pays, un Ronsart, un Bellay, un Tiart (...) se sont rendu si parfaitz, qu'il semble que la poésie, qui naguère faisait résidence en Italie, se serait voulu transporter en ceste contrée, pour y faire éternelle demeure. From the Grandsire and Michel de Bry libraries (1966, no. 154). Fine paper restoration at the corner or in the margin of a few leaves. Upper spine skilfully restored to the height of three boxes. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, n°43. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°585.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 94 - [PASQUIER (Étienne)]. - Recueil des rymes et proses. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1555. In-8, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt numeral in upper corner of first cover, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (David). First edition. Very difficult to find, according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller. Collection of sonnets and epistles, in verse and prose, followed by two colloquia or dialogues on the theme of love: the first between the lover and his lady, entitled Jouyssance, and the second on L'Œil et le Devis. At the end, a very long poem dedicated to Ronsard, Contre l'Amour. A copy from the libraries of Henri Monod (I, 1920, no. 267), with his gilded figure on the front cover, and Lindeboom (1925, no. 102). It belonged to General Jacques Willems and appeared in the Pierre Berès bookshop catalog Des Valois à Henri IV under n°260. Rubbing to spines and headpieces. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-4, no. 42. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 369-370. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°584.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 95 - PASSERAT (Jean). - De literarum inter se cognatione ac permutatione liber. Paris, David Douceur, 1606. In-8, fawn calf, double gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms, spine decorated with repeated numeral (contemporary binding). First edition of this philological treatise by Jean Passerat (1534-1602), poet and humanist, whose fine copper-engraved portrait by Thomas de Leu has been added to the text. Bound after : BERNART (J.). Ad. P. Stati Papini, Silvarum libros... Antwerp, Plantin, Jean Moretus, 1599. - COLER (Christophe). Ad. Cornelii Taciti scripta Spicilegium. Hanover, Wechel and Marny, 1603. - PUTEANUS. Musathena... Hanover, Ibid. 1602. - PUTEANUS. De erycionomine syntagma. Hanover, Ibid. 1606. 5 works in one volume, bearing the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde de La Châtre. Engraved bookplate Bibliotheca Elseghemensis. Browning in Musathena. Rubbing to binding, covers and spines restored and cracked. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, no. 15 or 73 (for Passerat). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°603.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 96 - 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

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 97 - PELETIER DU MANS (Jacques). - L'Art poetique d'Horace, translated into Vers François. Printed in Paris by Michel de Vascosan, 1545. In-8, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, slipcase (G. Plumelle). First dated edition, in decasyllabic verse, of this translation of Horace's Epistle to the Pisons, often called De arte poetica. It is dedicated to Cretofle Perot, seneschal of Maine, whose dedication constitutes a plea in favor of the French language; in particular, the poet denounces the disdain & contentment of our native tongue, which we leave behind to maintain the Greek & Latin languages, consuming all our time in the exercise of icelles. Elegantly printed in italics, by Vascosan. Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517-1582), a member of the Pléiade, influenced Ronsard and Du Bellay, and occupies an important place in the history of 16th-century literature. Bound in the collector's coat of arms. Minor restoration to the corner tips of a few leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°1. - Tchemerzine, t. V, p. 144. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°606.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 98 - PIBRAC (Guy du Faur, seigneur de). - Les Vers françois. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1584. In-4, fawn morocco, foliate border framed by cold-stamped fillets, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Cuzin). Last edition published during the author's lifetime of his Plaisirs de la vie rustique (1573), presented here under a new title and enlarged. In this bucolic poem imitating Virgil, the Seigneur de Pibrac (1529-1584) praises rural life and sings of the daily lives of the inhabitants of the Languedoc countryside, his homeland. Elegant impression by Mamert Patisson. A sonnet addressed to Ronsard on the verso of the title. A fine copy, bearing the arms of the Marquis de Villeneuve-Trans (1926, no. 218): it also came from the library of General Jacques Willems (cf. cat. Berès, Des Valois à Henri IV, no. 276). Paper yellowed by washing. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°. - Renouard, Estienne, p. 185. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°626.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 99 - PIBRAC (Guy du Faur, seigneur de). - Les Quatrains des sieurs Pybrac, Faure, et Mathieu: Ensemble les Plaisirs de la Vie Rustique. Paris, Antoine Robinot, 1640. 2 parts in one volume in-8, red morocco, double gilt fillet, spine decorated with the title in full between the nerves, gilt numeral at the tail, triple internal fillet, gilt edges (19th century binding). First illustrated edition, with title-frontispiece and 3 etched figures by Pierre Brébiette. Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique is paginated separately. A copy by Achille Devéria, the famous Romantic painter, illustrator and engraver (1800-1857), bound in his own cipher. It appeared at his sale on April 7, 1858, with a handwritten table in his hand occupying a flyleaf. It later belonged to Jules Bobin, for whom it bears a handwritten bookplate with the date 1869. Stains on two leaves. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°627-628.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 100 - PONTOUX (Claude de). - LANDO (Horatio). - Harangues lamentables, sur la mort de divers animaux, extraictes du Tuscan, rendues & augmentées en nostre vulgaire : Ou sont representez au vif les naturels desdits animaux, & les proprietez d'iceux, avec une rhetorique gaillarde. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, 1570. In-16, stiff vellum, red title page on spine, red speckled edges (18th century binding). Second edition of the translation, after the one published by the same bookseller in 1569, of this singular, very pleasant & facetious book, to recreate all spirits fond of gentilesse [sic]. It gives only 8 of the 11 original harangues and contains a curious Elegy on the death of a cuckold named Grongnet. Charming illustration with 13 woodcut vignettes, including one on the title. Claude de Pontoux, poet and physician, was born in Châlons-sur-Saône around 1530 and died in 1579. Small paper consolidation at the top of the title and in the margin of one leaf. Some dampstaining, wormholes restored at the bottom of several leaves. Copy placed in an 18th-century binding, the vellum has blistered on the second cover. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°42 (of the greatest rarity). - Baudrier, III, p. 267. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°641.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

JEAN PAUL BARBIER-MUELLER'S POETIC LIBRARY - Part 3

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