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RONSARD (Pierre de).
Discours des miseres de ce temps. Lyon, s.n., 1563. Plaquette in-8 of 8 leaves (the last 2 blank), bottle-green morocco, diamond-rectangle decoration with cold-stamped fillets, long gilt title on smooth spine, gilt edges (A. Lobstein). Very rare pirate edition of Discours des misères de ce temps, probably the most remarkable and striking of Ronsard's political speeches, published in 1562 at the time of the first war of religion. Slight spotting and wetness on the edges of the first three leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°14. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°720.
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