Pierre CORNEILLE

Pierre CORNEILLE

Born6 juin 1606
Died1 octobre 1684
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Auteur dramatique et poète sacré. - Membre de l'Institut, Académie française (élu en 1647). - Avocat. - Frère de : Corneille, Thomas (1625-1709), auteur dramatique
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CORNEILLE, Pierre
  1. The rarest, the best, and the most beautiful of the collective editions entirely rethought by the author.
    Le theatre de P. Corneille. Revue et corrigé par l'auteur
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Le theatre de P. Corneille. Revue et corrigé par l'auteur[The Theatre of Pierre Corneille. Revised and Corrected by the Author]

    Augustin Courbé • Guillaume de Luynes|Paris 1660|11 x 16.5 cm (Pet. in-8)|Copper engraving|Relié

    Collected edition, partly first edition, of the plays of Pierre Corneille, printed in Rouen by Laurens Maurry and sold in Paris by Augustin Courbé and Guillaume de Luyne. Illustrated with three allegorical engraved frontispieces and 23 full-page copper-engravings, largely designed by François Chauveau and engraved by artists including Jérôme David, Mathéus and Louis Spirinx.

     

    All three frontispieces are dated 1660. The title-pages and privileges of the first and third volumes are likewise dated 1660, while those of the second volume bear the date 1664. The second volume therefore belongs to the 1664 reissue...

    €7,000
  2. Théâtre Volume I
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Théâtre Volume I

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1950|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
    Pléiade Library edition printed on Bible paper.
    Publisher's binding in full red grained sheepskin, grey top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
    Fine copy complete with its glassine, dust jacket and slipcase.
    €35
  3. "Rodrick, hast thou a heart?"
    Oeuvres de Corneille
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres de Corneille[The Works of Corneille]

    Chez Augustin Courbé|Paris 1654 pour la première partie et 1652 pour les deux autres|8 x 13.50 cm|3 tomes reliés en 2 volumes

    Fourth collective edition for the first part and third for the second and third parts, published by Corneille himself. Our copy is adorned with the frontispiece of the first two editions (dated 1645), and the portrait of Corneille by Michel Lasne, dated 1644.

    Later bindings in full blue morocco, Jansenist spines with five raised bands, endpapers and pastedowns framed with gilt dentelles of marbled paper, all edges gilt, marbled paper slipcases bordered with morocco, bindings signed by Alix.

    Rare and beautiful copy elegantly bound.

    €5,000
  4. Oeuvres de Corneille avec les commentaires de Voltaire
    Pierre CORNEILLE, VOLTAIRE

    Oeuvres de Corneille avec les commentaires de Voltaire[The Works of Corneille with Voltaire’s Commentaries]

    Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard|à Paris 1817|13.50 x 23 cm|12 volumes reliés
    Later edition of the works of Pierre Corneille with a commentary by Voltaire.
    Contemporary half green Russia over paper boards (a little rubbed), spine with gilt Restoration typographic motifs.
    A little foxing.
    The set is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author drawn and engraved by Auguste de Saint-Aubin and 25 hors texte figures by Jean-Michel Moreau.
    A very good complete set of the works of Pierre Corneille in contemporary half Russia.
    €1,000
  5. Polyeucte
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Polyeucte

    Firmin Didot|Paris 1889|31 x 44 cm|relié
    Edition of 800 numbered copies including 100 on Japan paper. No. 657 on white Marais vellum.
    Half old red morocco with corners. Spine with raised bands richly decorated in the spirit of great 17th-century bindings. Gilt fillets to covers. A tear with loss to tail headcap and covers and edges and joints rubbed. Very handsome binding despite the defects. Superb interior condition.
    5 large symbolist compositions by Albert Maignan engraved as etchings and printed on China paper. A frontispiece portrait. Ornaments and typographical execution very refined in the taste of the 17th century. Handsome work executed for the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
    A bibliophilic gem.
    €400
  6. Oeuvres complètes Tome II
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres complètes Tome II

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1984|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
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  7. Oeuvres complètes Tome I
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres complètes Tome I

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1996|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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  10. Polyeucte
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Polyeucte

    Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan|Paris 1930|24 x 31 cm|relié sous étui
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  14. Oeuvres complètes. Tome III
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres complètes. Tome III

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1987|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple
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  15. Oeuvres complètes. Tome II
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres complètes. Tome II

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1984|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple
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  16. Oeuvres de P. Corneille
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres de P. Corneille

    Imprimerie de P. Didot l'ainé|Paris 1801|14 x 21.30 cm|12 volumes reliés
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  17. Oeuvres de P. Corneille
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres de P. Corneille

    Imprimerie de P. Didot l'ainé|Paris 1801|14 x 21.30 cm|12 volumes reliés
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  19. Sertorius
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Sertorius

    Chez Augustin Courbé • et chez Guillaume de Luyne|Paris 1662|8.50 x 14 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Late 19thC English red morocco by Riviere and Son, Jansenist spine in six compartments, double gilt fillet to head- and tail-pieces and edges of covers, large gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, all edges gilt.
    Modern ex libris to upper pastedown. Final endpaper slightly sunned.
    The piece was written for the Théâtre du Marais in Paris on the 25 February 1662 and published in July of the same year.
    A fine copy in an elegant signed morocco binding.
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  24. Oeuvres
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Oeuvres

    Chez Lefèvre|Paris 1824|14 x 22 cm|12 volumes reliés
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  25. Oeuvres
    Pierre CORNEILLE, VOLTAIRE

    Oeuvres

    Janet & Cotelle|Paris 1821|13 x 21 cm|12 volumes reliés
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  26. Théâtre, avec des commentaires, et autres morceaux intéressans
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Théâtre, avec des commentaires, et autres morceaux intéressans

    S. n. • [ Rottmann]|Genève [Geneva] • [Berlin] 1774|19.50 x 26 cm|8 volumes reliés
    An attractive edition with a frontispiece illustration of a sculpted bust of Corneille engraved by Watelet after Pierre, and 34 figures hors texte etched after Gravelot within Louis XVth-style ornamental frames, also by the same artist.
    Contemporary marbled brown calf, spine in six compartments with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as red and green morocco title and volume labels. Double gilt fillet to edges of covers. All edges marbled.
    Small, skillful restorations to binding.
    A fine copy.
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  27. Théâtre
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Théâtre

    Chez Jouaust, Librairie des Bibliophiles|Paris 1877-1879|11.50 x 17.50 cm|5 volumes reliés
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  31. Théâtre de P. Corneille
    Hubert François GRAVELOT, Pierre CORNEILLE

    Théâtre de P. Corneille

    S. n.|Genève [Geneva] 1774|20 x 26.50 cm|8 volumes reliés
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  32. Théâtre
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    Théâtre

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1951|10.50 x 17.50 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur sous étui
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  36. L'imitation de Jésus Christ
    Pierre CORNEILLE

    L'imitation de Jésus Christ

    Chez Robert Ballard|à Paris 1654 - 1656|8.50 x 14.50 cm|relié
    First edition of the third part appeared in 1654 (first 30 chapters) and following the third and fourth published in 1656. The first two books were published simultaneously in 1651. A frontispiece and 20 figures etched intaglio of after David H. and R. Du Clos for the first book volume II and 47 of the same figures for the second book volume III. Beautiful and fine prints including many scenes of martyrs and torture. The series of engravings are particularly beautiful.
    Full morocco bindings brown-black late eighteenth signed Smeers. Back with nerves decorated with 4 small florets; dates tail and golden shares. Grand central medallion on the dishes, coaching cold with angle...
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  41. Polyeucte et le zèle téméraire
    (Pierre CORNEILLE) Edmond LE BLANT

    Polyeucte et le zèle téméraire

    Imprimerie Nationale|Paris 1876|23 x 28 cm|broché
    First edition of this offprint.
    Detached plain wrappers with marginal tears.
    Some light foxing as usual.
    Rare.
    €50
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