Patisson, Mamert (1530?-1602?)

First edition. The title page of the Poesies chrestiennes is dated 1601. Publisher's devices on title pages.
Half wine-colored glazed calf binding ca 1830 in the style of Thouvenin. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 blind tools and roulettes. Gilt title labels on calf. Marbled edges.
Philippe Desportes (1546-1606), considered by his contemporaries as the greatest living poet, provides the literary transition between Ronsard and Malherbe. Desportes' design was to give French Catholics a translation that would be the equivalent of that of Marot and Theodore de Bèze for the reformed. First published in 1591, numbering sixty, the psalms were increased to one hundred in 1598, and finally to one hundred fifty in 1603.

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 the last work published during the author's lifetime and revised by his hand, the latter having died in 1602, at the age of 68. Although he was a very enlightened humanist and profound scholar, friend to many poets (Muret, Ronsard, Baïf...), he is the author of light and particularly witty poetry, without affectation, nourished by Antiquity, where wordplay and rhymes embellish the poems. Professor of eloquence and literature, Passerat published very little during his lifetime, yet he was highly appreciated by his peers. The two editions on Cicero testify to the excellent orator he was. One should also note that he was one of the principal collaborators of the Satyre Menippee.
19th century engraved bookplate with the arms of the Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, Croy (1823-1844)

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 book published during the author's lifetime and revised by his hand, the latter having died in 1602, at the age of 68. Although he was a very enlightened humanist and a profound scholar, friend to many poets (Muret, Ronsard, Baïf...), he is the author of light and particularly witty poetry, without affectation, nourished by Antiquity, where wordplay and rhymes embellish the poems. Professor of eloquence and Belles-Lettres, Passerat would publish very little during his lifetime, yet he was highly appreciated

Apud Mamertum Patissonium, Roberti Stephani (Mamert Patisson, Robert Estienne), Lutetiae (Paris) 1579, in-8 (10x16 cm), (12)136pp(8); 292pp(10), 2 parts bound in one volume

First edition, rare. The first part has separate pagination and consists of the text by Manilius (italics), the second part, which has its own title page and pagination, contains Scaliger's commentary, which is twice as long as the text. This second part is accompanied by several diagrams, including inset. Printer's marks on both title pages.

Full contemporary parchment. Spine with title in black ink. Right corner missing a little on the upper board. Open 3mm border on the lower board.

Manilius' Astronomica, Latin poet and astronomer from the beginning of the first century, is a didactic poem on astronomy and astrology. The first book is a description of the sky, the second is devoted to the zodiac, the third teaches how to establish a horoscope by observing the skies, the forth book is an analysis of the peoples of the earth according to the astral influence, and the last book gives an explanation of the influence of the planets according to their positions. It will be noted that for the first time in the history of astrology the concept of “House”, that is still used, was mentioned.
Scaliger's commentary and reflections are the first to exist on this work. Scaliger, as we know, was one of the most important scholars of the 16th century and succeeded Justus Lipsius at Leiden University. His interest in chronology, astrology and astronomy accompanied him throughout his life. However, his critics criticised him in this field for an approximation in his sources and a certain error in his judgments on ancient astronomy.

First complete edition, partially original, printed in in-4 format, in italics and presenting the mark of Robert Estienne on the title page. This collection contains 80 pieces more than the First edition 1569. Works Only our edition is indicated by Tchemerzine. Our copy is complete of the sheet a ii , often missing.
Posterior Binding (early seventeenth ^century) in the calf mottled brown, back with five nerves decorated with iron griffin and cross fleur-de-lysed, double net gilded framing boards struck them weapons center Cauchon and of Hesselin, all slices speckled with red. joints and upper inner corner of the second flat skillfully restored with gilding recovery. Small worm work affecting the joint of the last nerve of the first board. Three joints of nerves of the second flat slightly rubbed. A few small wetting and wormholes narrowing in the inner margin of the volume. A small angular wetting without attacking the text on the margin of the sheet 93.
Precious signed copy of Louis Treslon-Cauchon said Hesselin (1602-1662), advisor to Louis XIII, master of the House to the money and superintendent of pleasures of the King.
A great bibliophile, famous for his wealth, he was also a lover of works of art and paintings. "Hesselin was a great figure at the court in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the man of taste par excellence [...]. Very fond of beautiful curiosities, he had made his house quai des Bethune, in the Ile Saint-Louis, a real museum. [...] I call his cabinet all his house - says Father Nicéron, author of "The curious prospect" - because it is truly adorned and filled with so many rarities, [...] so rare paintings and pieces to to delight, [...] so many good books in all kinds of science, that one can say it the abridgement of all the cabinets of Paris. Hesselin died poisoned by a servant in 1664 [...]. The books of his library meet with difficulty; they are usually connected in tortoiseshell with his arms. "(Bonnaffé, Dictionary of French fans in the seventeenth ^century, 1884).
An emblematic figure of the Poitevin humanism, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe became very young with Pierre de Ronsard and had as his friends illustrious figures of the Pleiades such as Jean-Antoine de Baïf and Remy Belleau.
Provenances: Long bibliographical note of the hand of the Baron Pichon - one of the owners of the volume - on the first guard: "The weapons that are on the plate of this volume are quartered with Cauchon and Hesselin. The Cauchon branch of Conde were from the Treslon branch and died in 1664 in the person of Louis Cauchon dit Hesselin . V. my note on him in the journey of Lister 1873 in-8 p. 247 (1897, No. 812). Hector de Backer Library (cat 1926, n ° 580) Bookplate Gianni de Marco pasted on the first contreplat, his dry stamp on one of the white guards.
Beautiful copy established in a binder with the arms of one of the most influential French bibliophiles of the seventeenth ^century.