Jean REBOUL

Poésies de Jean Reboul de Nîmes

H.L. Delloye, Paris 1842, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

New edition.
Bound in half red shagreen, smooth spine decorated with golden arabesques romantic, red cardboard boards ornamented with decorative motifs stamped cold guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

50 €

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Edward YOUNG & LE TOURNEUR

Oeuvres diverses du Docteur Young

Chez E. van Harrevelt, Amsterdam 1772, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in-12 (11x18cm), (2) LVI ; 295pp. (1) et (2) 310pp. (2) et (2)

New edition.
Binders of the time open blond calf. Back smooth decorated with gilded finials and nets, as well as parts of title and volume numbers of black morocco. Golden roulette vegetable boards coaching.
The edition is organized as follows:
T1. Young's Night.
T2. Young's [...]

350 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia

Chez Abel l'Angelier, Paris 1606, in-8 (11x16,5cm), (6) 464pp. (8) ; (16) 248pp. [mal chiff. 148] (6), 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume.

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by John Rougevalet, nephew of the author. The Compendium is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French plays in it, there are his famous hunting poems: The Deer of [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Benjamin de LABORDE

Mémoires historiques sur Raoul de Coucy. On y a joint le Recueil de ses Chansons en vieux langage, ...

De l'Imprimerie de Ph.- D. Pierres, Paris 1781, in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), (8) 108pp. et (4) 106pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The first edition, finely printed by Pierres. The work is illustrated with three portraits, including one of Raoul de Coucy, one hors-texte figure showing the town of Coucy-le-Château, and twelve pages of music engraved with the greatest care after manuscripts belonging to the king and the Marquis [...]

2 500 €

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Claude de MORENNE

Oraisons funebres et tombeaux. Avecques les Cantiques, Quatrains, & autres Poëmes, tant François ...

Pierre Bertault, Paris 1604, in-8 (11x17,5cm), 4 parties reliées en un volume.

The very rare first collected edition, first in parts, of the works of Claude de Morenne (1550-1606), preacher to King Henri IV and Bishop of Sées.
Contemporary cream-colored supple vellum, spine with fillets and little gilt fleurons, double gilt fillet frame to covers, all edges gilt.
One [...]

1 500 €

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COLLECTIF

Recueil des plus belles pièces des poëtes françois, tant anciens que modernes, depuis Villon ...

par La Compagnie des libraires, Paris 1752, in-12 (8x13,5cm), ix (1) 322pp. (4) 314pp. et (2) 292pp. (2) 312pp. et (2)

Famous poetry anthology, known as the Compendium of Barbin because records within it are believed to have been composed by François Barbin, son of the bookseller who printed for the first time in 1692. This valuable collection was the first to accord importance to the poets of the Middle Ages, [...]

550 €

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Evariste PARNY

Opuscules

Manoury, Londres, et se trouve à Caen 1787, in-16 (7,5x12,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Counterfeiting of the Cazin edition of 1781 pieces of these erotic, songs and literary madécasses mixtures. According permission placed at the end of the second volume, this fourth edition was printed in 1500 copies. It is decorated with two titles-engraved frontispiece, marked "Fifth Edition", [...]

500 €

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Jean DOUBLET

Élégies. Suivies des Épigrammes et Rimes diverses

Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1871, 10,5x17cm, relié.

Reprint for the poet's Elegies bibliophile Cabinet Collection Dieppe Jean Doublet, born in the early sixteenth century and died around 1580. edition of 333 copies, this one of 15 numbered copies on Whatman.
Contemporary binding in full red morocco, signed Hello - Wampflug back with five nerves [...]

680 €

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