DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. Hymne au Roy sur la prinse [ sic ] de Calais, 1559; Le Premier Livre des Antiquitez de Rome, 1558; Divers Jeux Rustiques, 1560; Les Regrets, 1559; Discours au Roy sur la Trefve de l'An M.D.LV, 1559; Épithalame sur le Mariage de tresillustre Prince Philibert Emanuel, Duc de Savoye, et...Princesse Marguerite de France, 1559; all Paris: Fédéric Morel. 6 vols. in one, 4to, 232 x 160 mm. (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.), seventeenth-century calf, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt in six compartments, morocco lettering-piece, g.e., old repairs to head of spine, worn, a very few small marginal stains, faint dust-soiling to upper edges . FIRST EDITION of the Premier Livre des Antiquitez , second and third editions of the other works, RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, italic type, Morel's woodcut device on titles, woodcut grotesque and floral headpieces and floriated initials. Tchemerzine V, 61a, 51a, 56a, 52b, 65b and 66b. Provenance : Leonard Deuterssias (?), contemporary signature on title of Les Regrets -- Long inscription in a nineteenth-century French hand concerning Du Bellay's literary importance on front flyleaf.
DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. Hymne au Roy sur la prinse [ sic ] de Calais, 1559; Le Premier Livre des Antiquitez de Rome, 1558; Divers Jeux Rustiques, 1560; Les Regrets, 1559; Discours au Roy sur la Trefve de l'An M.D.LV, 1559; Épithalame sur le Mariage de tresillustre Prince Philibert Emanuel, Duc de Savoye, et...Princesse Marguerite de France, 1559; all Paris: Fédéric Morel. 6 vols. in one, 4to, 232 x 160 mm. (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.), seventeenth-century calf, covers gilt-panelled, spine gilt in six compartments, morocco lettering-piece, g.e., old repairs to head of spine, worn, a very few small marginal stains, faint dust-soiling to upper edges . FIRST EDITION of the Premier Livre des Antiquitez , second and third editions of the other works, RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, italic type, Morel's woodcut device on titles, woodcut grotesque and floral headpieces and floriated initials. Tchemerzine V, 61a, 51a, 56a, 52b, 65b and 66b. Provenance : Leonard Deuterssias (?), contemporary signature on title of Les Regrets -- Long inscription in a nineteenth-century French hand concerning Du Bellay's literary importance on front flyleaf.
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