PUGET DE LA SERRE, Jean (ca. 1600-1665). Les penses de l'ternit et de la mort . [Paris: Rolin Baragnes, ?1626]. [ Bound with :] Les douces penses de la mort . [Brussels: Franois Vivien, ?1627]. 2 volumes in one, 8 o (164 x 106 mm). Title-leaf of first volume (fol. 2) removed, replaced with manuscript calligraphic title in gold ink on recto of engraved frontispiece, frontispiece-portrait of the dedicatee Isabelle d'Espagne and 4 full-page engravings, all signed with the monogram of Michel Lasne (cf. Nagler 1974) (also lacking ?blank leaves 1 and 7); second volume with engraved title, frontispiece-portrait of the dedicatee the Marquis de Saint Rmy, author portrait, and four full-page engravings (3 unsigned) by Cornelius Galle after N. van der Horst, without the letterpress title, final two blank leaves present. Ruled in red throughout. (Tear to calligraphic title-leaf and following text leaf affecting frontispiece, light browning throughout.) Contemporary Parisian red morocco from the shop of Mac Ruette, gold tooled to a late fanfare design, sides panelled with geometric rolls surrounding entrelac and compartment decor densely gilt with spiralling pointill sprays and five-petalled flower tools, punctuated with gilt dots and small solid gilt fleurons and volutes queue , the central compartment of each cover left blank except for two flower tools, spine in six compartments filled with pointill sprays and gilt dots, at center of each compartment a small vase and flower tool, turn-ins and board edges gilt, gilt edges, comb-marbled pastedown endpapers (spine slightly darkened, small chip at head of spine, corners rubbed); modern board slipcase. Provenance : Oratory of our Lady of Virtues, gift from Merlin of Paris (contemporary ex-dono inscription on manuscript title of first work); Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) (engraved bookplate). A FINE LATE FANFARE BINDING FROM THE ATELIER OF MAC RUETTE. Three tools on the present binding are identical to tools of the Ruette atelier reproduced in the Esmerian catalogue, part II and Tableaux synoptiques (Annexe A-II): the pointill five-petalled flower tool appears on several bindings in part II and is reproduced in the table, and the small solid fleuron tool and both geometric border rolls appear together on the binding on Part II, lot 4, described as "one of the first bindings with a pointill dcor". The dotted spiral sprays and small volutes queue on the present binding resemble but do not exactly match those reproduced in Esmerian's table. Apprenticed to Dominique Salis in 1598, Mac Ruette (1584-1644) opened his own atelier in 1606 and became "administrateur de la Confrrie des libraires" in 1629, before succeeding Clovis Eve as Relieur du roi in 1634. His binding activities seem to have ceased in 1638. To Mac are attributed the earliest experiments with the soon to be fashionable pointill tools; he is also known as the inventor of "papier peigne" or comb-marbled paper. The bindings produced in Mac Ruette's shop are generally superior in execution to those of his son and successor Antoine Ruette. This volume graced the library of one of the ancien rgime 's most energetic and able administrators. Councillor of state and member of the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Foucault was also a skilled amateur archaelogist and amassed an important library on the history of France. His cabinet of medals and antiquities is preserved at the Bibliothque Nationale de France.
PUGET DE LA SERRE, Jean (ca. 1600-1665). Les penses de l'ternit et de la mort . [Paris: Rolin Baragnes, ?1626]. [ Bound with :] Les douces penses de la mort . [Brussels: Franois Vivien, ?1627]. 2 volumes in one, 8 o (164 x 106 mm). Title-leaf of first volume (fol. 2) removed, replaced with manuscript calligraphic title in gold ink on recto of engraved frontispiece, frontispiece-portrait of the dedicatee Isabelle d'Espagne and 4 full-page engravings, all signed with the monogram of Michel Lasne (cf. Nagler 1974) (also lacking ?blank leaves 1 and 7); second volume with engraved title, frontispiece-portrait of the dedicatee the Marquis de Saint Rmy, author portrait, and four full-page engravings (3 unsigned) by Cornelius Galle after N. van der Horst, without the letterpress title, final two blank leaves present. Ruled in red throughout. (Tear to calligraphic title-leaf and following text leaf affecting frontispiece, light browning throughout.) Contemporary Parisian red morocco from the shop of Mac Ruette, gold tooled to a late fanfare design, sides panelled with geometric rolls surrounding entrelac and compartment decor densely gilt with spiralling pointill sprays and five-petalled flower tools, punctuated with gilt dots and small solid gilt fleurons and volutes queue , the central compartment of each cover left blank except for two flower tools, spine in six compartments filled with pointill sprays and gilt dots, at center of each compartment a small vase and flower tool, turn-ins and board edges gilt, gilt edges, comb-marbled pastedown endpapers (spine slightly darkened, small chip at head of spine, corners rubbed); modern board slipcase. Provenance : Oratory of our Lady of Virtues, gift from Merlin of Paris (contemporary ex-dono inscription on manuscript title of first work); Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) (engraved bookplate). A FINE LATE FANFARE BINDING FROM THE ATELIER OF MAC RUETTE. Three tools on the present binding are identical to tools of the Ruette atelier reproduced in the Esmerian catalogue, part II and Tableaux synoptiques (Annexe A-II): the pointill five-petalled flower tool appears on several bindings in part II and is reproduced in the table, and the small solid fleuron tool and both geometric border rolls appear together on the binding on Part II, lot 4, described as "one of the first bindings with a pointill dcor". The dotted spiral sprays and small volutes queue on the present binding resemble but do not exactly match those reproduced in Esmerian's table. Apprenticed to Dominique Salis in 1598, Mac Ruette (1584-1644) opened his own atelier in 1606 and became "administrateur de la Confrrie des libraires" in 1629, before succeeding Clovis Eve as Relieur du roi in 1634. His binding activities seem to have ceased in 1638. To Mac are attributed the earliest experiments with the soon to be fashionable pointill tools; he is also known as the inventor of "papier peigne" or comb-marbled paper. The bindings produced in Mac Ruette's shop are generally superior in execution to those of his son and successor Antoine Ruette. This volume graced the library of one of the ancien rgime 's most energetic and able administrators. Councillor of state and member of the Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Foucault was also a skilled amateur archaelogist and amassed an important library on the history of France. His cabinet of medals and antiquities is preserved at the Bibliothque Nationale de France.
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