PASSERAT (Jean).

De literarum inter se cognatione ac permutatione liber. Paris, David Douceur, 1606. In-8, fawn calf, double gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms, spine decorated with repeated numeral (contemporary binding). First edition of this philological treatise by Jean Passerat (1534-1602), poet and humanist, whose fine copper-engraved portrait by Thomas de Leu has been added to the text. Bound after : BERNART (J.). Ad. P. Stati Papini, Silvarum libros... Antwerp, Plantin, Jean Moretus, 1599. - COLER (Christophe). Ad. Cornelii Taciti scripta Spicilegium. Hanover, Wechel and Marny, 1603. - PUTEANUS. Musathena... Hanover, Ibid. 1602. - PUTEANUS. De erycionomine syntagma. Hanover, Ibid. 1606. 5 works in one volume, bearing the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and his second wife Gasparde de La Châtre. Engraved bookplate Bibliotheca Elseghemensis. Browning in Musathena. Rubbing to binding, covers and spines restored and cracked. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, no. 15 or 73 (for Passerat). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°603.