Eustache LE NOBLE

First edition.

Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Brown sheep title label. Headcap torn away. Loss to upper joint at head. Upper joint split at tail with loss. Library label at head. Corners very much bumped. 

First editions of these two works. Rare. L'hérésie détruite is noted as second edition.
Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated in grotesque style. Red morocco title label. Gilt ruling to boards. Edges gilt. Upper headcap worn. Upper joint cracked at head and lower joint cracked at foot. A dark stain on lower board.
Recent manuscript annotations on first endpaper, noting that L'allée de la seringue, a satirical poem, is in imitation of Boileau's Lutrin, that the Fradine is also a satire against an apothecary, and that L'hérésie détruite is a celebration of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The last text, in prose, is a strange staging of the Gods of P

First editions. Elzevirian editions with the Sphere device.
Contemporary full calf binding, spine with raised bands, decorated.
Work composed of 5 texts in first edition gathered in one volume: La chambre des comptes d'Innocent XI (5th dialogue), Le songe de Pasquin ou le bal de l'Europe (2nd dialogue), Le festin de Guillemot (4th dialogue), La pierre de touche politique, la diète d'Augsbourg (9th dialogue). The dialogues appeared anonymously between 1688 and 1691. The pasquinades are satirical dialogues between two harlequin-like characters, Pasquin and Marsorio. It is Pasquin who leads the subject, his sidekick asking questions. The whole is treated with all the desired lightness