Jean PASSERAT

Second issue by Kerner of this "à la sphère" edition which is added to the Elsevier collection. This second issue is characterized by the addition on the fourth leaf of 8 lines of errata. A folding plate of the League procession (which is missing in many copies).
Dutch binding in full flexible vellum with overlapping flaps. Smooth Jansenist spine with handwritten title. Lower border partially worn. Soiling. Good copy.
Very famous satirical pamphlet against the League and the Leaguers, its leaders and supporters, who assembled in Paris in 1593. This edition therefore comprises the virtue of the catholicon, the summary of the farce of the League estates, the 7 harangues, the epistle...

Rare gathering of four early editions of Jean Passerat, all printed by Robert Estienne, whose mark is recognizable on the title page.
Kalendae Januariae. 1603. Mamert Patisson. After the first edition of 1597.
De caecitate oratio. 1597. Mamert Patisson. First edition.
Praefatiuncula... 1595. Mamert Patisson. First edition.
Le premier livre... 1602. Edition with some parts in first edition augmented with 7 new poems after that of 1597 which contained only 17.
Full brown glazed calf binding 18th century. Raised spine richly decorated. Brown morocco title label. Joints skillfully restored. Gilt tooling on edges. Handsome copy.
Le Premier livre of poems is...

Edition with some parts in first edition, the main part of which appeared in 1597, but which contains for the first time Le Fresne, L'Espérance, La Divinité des procès, Sur un anneau, Je pensais que vertu, La Femme et le Procès, Ce Petit Dieu colère, On demande en vain; that is 7 new poems (only 17 had appeared in 1597).
Full dark green morocco binding late 19th century. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Boards decorated à la Du Seuil, inner frame with fleurons in the corners. Rich inner frieze. Spine lightened. Light rubbing to corners, joints and headcaps. The copy appears, judging by the handmade paper of the pastedowns, to have been rebound.
This is the last...

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by Jean de Rougevalet, the author's nephew. The Recueil is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat, engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French pieces it contains, one finds his famous cynegetic poetry: Le Cerf d'amour, Le Chien courant and Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier. Viollet-le-Duc's copy, with his bookplate.
Later binding (mid-18th century) in full marbled blonde calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, all edges red.
In the Recueil: repair at...

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, 11 figures (numerous portraits) including 2 folding (the procession of the League and the states of the League) and one figure in-text. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full speckled glazed brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 compartmented fleurons. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. Head restored, likewise at foot of volumes I and III. Upper joints of volumes I and III restored. Cracks in places on the joints. Fine quality binding showing defects, notably due to restoration.
The most complete early edition, with additions by Prosper Marchand and Godefroy's tables. It inherits all...