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Auction archive: Lot number 52

FRENCH POETRY AND CLASSICS. GROUP OF 6. 1535-1697

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$6,875
Auction archive: Lot number 52

FRENCH POETRY AND CLASSICS. GROUP OF 6. 1535-1697

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$6,875
Beschreibung:

French Poetry and Classics A fine group of 6 works in 7 volumes, 1535-1697, as follows: Diodorus Siculus. Les Troys Premiers Livres de LHistoire. Paris: [widow of Geoffroy Tory], April 1535. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 206 x 142 mm), woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut allegorical image on title verso, large historiated and smaller floral woodcut initials, red morocco, gilt-stamped title on spine, dentelles, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, bookplate of Edouard Rahir. Mortimer, French 173. — Marot, Clément. Les Oeuvres ... Plus amples, & en meilleur ordre que paravant. Paris: Jean Ruelles, 1547. Bound in 2 volumes, 12mo (4 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.; 110 x 73 mm). Decorative woodcut initial; title lightly soiled, top margin cut close touching a few headlines or page numbers, old signature on title crossed out. 18th-century calf, spines gilt; 2 corners mended, joints rubbed. This edition of the great Renaissance poet's works, including his Enfer and Psaumes, was divided among several printers but Ruelle was not noted (in Tchemerzine). Tchemerzine VIII, 33b. — L'Eschole de Salerne En vers Burlesques. & Duo Poemata Macaronica; de bello huguenotico; Et de Gestis Magnanimi & Prudentissimi Baldi. Paris: n.p., 1651. 12mo (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.; 134 x 74 mm). Woodcut armillary sphere on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials; light marginal soiling. 19th century red morocco, triple-fillet border, spine gilt, dentelles, edges gilt, in a solander box, by Riviere & Son. A very popular humorous treatment of health. The author of this burlesque was a seventeenth-century Parisian doctor, Louis Martin. Following in the footsteps of Merlin Coccaie and Scarron, he treats the health precepts attributed to the School of Salerno, in ten songs. The songs offer general advice on health, the air and food, the quality of food, the four seasons, dinner and dessert, herbs and vegetables, flowers and seeds; fruit, meat, and seasonal dishes. It is followed by the famous neo-Latin poem of Remy Belleau on the wars of religion, and a third on the deeds of "the most prudent Baldus." E. Goldsmid, Bibliotheca Curiosa (1886), p. 41. — [Béroalde de Verville, François]. Le Moyen de Parvenir, oevure [sic] contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est, et sera. ... Imprimé cette année. [Leiden: Severin Mathys, c. 1652]. 12mo (4 7/8 x 2 5/8 in.; 124 x 66 mm). Woodcut fleuron on title, headpiece composed of printer's ornaments; somewhat browned with some marginal spotting, old library shelfmark in lower blank portion of title. Modern vellum. The most famous work of Béroalde (1556-1626), novelist and poet, is a playful, chaotic, baroque, sometimes obscene parody of books of "table talk", (such as those of Rabelais and Montaigne's "The Essays") in which a gathering of famous individuals debate, discuss and joke (with often coarse humor) about historical and philosophical matters. All early editions appeared without imprint, but the present issue has been attributed, by Willems, to the Leiden printer Severin Mathys. Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a classical scholar, bishop of Avranches, and assistant tutor to the Dauphin, for whom he created the series of Delphin Classics. Willems 1960; Tchemerzine II, 206b. Signature of Pierre Daniel Huet on front flyleaf. — Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Poemata, scholiis sive annotationibus instar commentarii illustrata, à Ioanne Bond. Editio nova. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier, 1676. 8vo (5 1/4 x 3 in.; 134 x 76 mm). Engraved title, decorative woodcut initial. Early 19th-century blue straight-grain morocco, broadly roll-tooled gilt border, spine richly gilt, pink watered-silk doublures, dentelles, edges gilt, by Simier; extremities rubbed, a few light scratches. Willems 1517. Contemporary signature of Dozet in upper margin of title; bookplate of Henri Beraldi — [Thomas à Kempis]. De Imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Paris: Frédéric Leonard, 1697. 12mo (3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.; 95 x 57 mm). Engraved title vignette by N. Pitau. 18th-century black mo

Auction archive: Lot number 52
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

French Poetry and Classics A fine group of 6 works in 7 volumes, 1535-1697, as follows: Diodorus Siculus. Les Troys Premiers Livres de LHistoire. Paris: [widow of Geoffroy Tory], April 1535. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 206 x 142 mm), woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut allegorical image on title verso, large historiated and smaller floral woodcut initials, red morocco, gilt-stamped title on spine, dentelles, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, bookplate of Edouard Rahir. Mortimer, French 173. — Marot, Clément. Les Oeuvres ... Plus amples, & en meilleur ordre que paravant. Paris: Jean Ruelles, 1547. Bound in 2 volumes, 12mo (4 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.; 110 x 73 mm). Decorative woodcut initial; title lightly soiled, top margin cut close touching a few headlines or page numbers, old signature on title crossed out. 18th-century calf, spines gilt; 2 corners mended, joints rubbed. This edition of the great Renaissance poet's works, including his Enfer and Psaumes, was divided among several printers but Ruelle was not noted (in Tchemerzine). Tchemerzine VIII, 33b. — L'Eschole de Salerne En vers Burlesques. & Duo Poemata Macaronica; de bello huguenotico; Et de Gestis Magnanimi & Prudentissimi Baldi. Paris: n.p., 1651. 12mo (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.; 134 x 74 mm). Woodcut armillary sphere on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials; light marginal soiling. 19th century red morocco, triple-fillet border, spine gilt, dentelles, edges gilt, in a solander box, by Riviere & Son. A very popular humorous treatment of health. The author of this burlesque was a seventeenth-century Parisian doctor, Louis Martin. Following in the footsteps of Merlin Coccaie and Scarron, he treats the health precepts attributed to the School of Salerno, in ten songs. The songs offer general advice on health, the air and food, the quality of food, the four seasons, dinner and dessert, herbs and vegetables, flowers and seeds; fruit, meat, and seasonal dishes. It is followed by the famous neo-Latin poem of Remy Belleau on the wars of religion, and a third on the deeds of "the most prudent Baldus." E. Goldsmid, Bibliotheca Curiosa (1886), p. 41. — [Béroalde de Verville, François]. Le Moyen de Parvenir, oevure [sic] contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est, et sera. ... Imprimé cette année. [Leiden: Severin Mathys, c. 1652]. 12mo (4 7/8 x 2 5/8 in.; 124 x 66 mm). Woodcut fleuron on title, headpiece composed of printer's ornaments; somewhat browned with some marginal spotting, old library shelfmark in lower blank portion of title. Modern vellum. The most famous work of Béroalde (1556-1626), novelist and poet, is a playful, chaotic, baroque, sometimes obscene parody of books of "table talk", (such as those of Rabelais and Montaigne's "The Essays") in which a gathering of famous individuals debate, discuss and joke (with often coarse humor) about historical and philosophical matters. All early editions appeared without imprint, but the present issue has been attributed, by Willems, to the Leiden printer Severin Mathys. Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a classical scholar, bishop of Avranches, and assistant tutor to the Dauphin, for whom he created the series of Delphin Classics. Willems 1960; Tchemerzine II, 206b. Signature of Pierre Daniel Huet on front flyleaf. — Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Poemata, scholiis sive annotationibus instar commentarii illustrata, à Ioanne Bond. Editio nova. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier, 1676. 8vo (5 1/4 x 3 in.; 134 x 76 mm). Engraved title, decorative woodcut initial. Early 19th-century blue straight-grain morocco, broadly roll-tooled gilt border, spine richly gilt, pink watered-silk doublures, dentelles, edges gilt, by Simier; extremities rubbed, a few light scratches. Willems 1517. Contemporary signature of Dozet in upper margin of title; bookplate of Henri Beraldi — [Thomas à Kempis]. De Imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Paris: Frédéric Leonard, 1697. 12mo (3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.; 95 x 57 mm). Engraved title vignette by N. Pitau. 18th-century black mo

Auction archive: Lot number 52
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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