BIBLIOTHÈQUE POÉTIQUE DE JEAN PAUL BARBIER-MUELLER - 3e …

Lot 101 - POUPO (Pierre). - La Muse chrestienne. Paris, Barthélemi Le Franc, 1590. In-12, limp vellum, traces of binding, red edges (16th-century binding). Second edition, partly original, of the Muse chrestienne by Pierre Poupo (1552-1590), a Protestant poet from Champagne-Ardenne. It is enlarged by 26 sonnets and 2 epigrams, and contains one book (the second book) more than the original edition published in Geneva in 1585. Poupo, without having Goulart's talent as a sonnet writer, easily stands out from the pack of Protestant and Catholic rhymers of the last quarter of the 16th century. He wrote not just a few pleasant verses, but some fine poems (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). This edition is extremely rare, as is the original from Geneva: at the time, J. P. Barbier-Mueller counted only 5 copies, his own and four others located in institutions. Some foxing and stains. The first 2 leaves are badly restored. Copy in a 16th-century binding. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°44. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°128. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°644.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 102 - RÉGNIER (Mathurin). - Les Satyres. Derniere Edition, reveuë corrigée & de beaucoup augmentée, tant par le sieur de Sigogne, que de Berthelot. Paris, De l'Imprimerie d'Anthoine du Brueil, 1614. In-8, green morocco, triple cold-stamped fillet, interior lace, gilt edges (mid-19th century binding). Posthumous edition, described by Cherrier in his bibliography of Mathurin Régnier pp. 10-11. It contains all XVII satires, plus a few scattered pieces. Folio 93 is occupied by the following title: Autres Satyres et folastreries, tant du sieur de Sigonne & Berthelot qu'autres des plus signalez Poëtes de ce temps. From the libraries of Pierre Deschamps and Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1878, no. 337). Joints restored. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-5, n°52. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°653.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 103 - RÉGNIER (Mathurin). - The Satyrs, and other works. Leiden, Jean & Daniel Elzevier, 1652. In-12, midnight-blue long-grained morocco, gilt border, ornate spine, thousand-point decoration on the caissons, slender interior roulette, gilt edges (L. F. Bozerian). Elzévirienne's second edition, partly original. It has long served as a model for reprints of the author's works. Charming morocco binding by Bozerian. From the Hans Fürstenberg and Edmond de La Haye Jousselin libraries. Minor restoration to binding (upper head and corners). Cherrier, pp. 25-26. - Willems, n°715. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°658.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 104 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Discours au Roy, après son retour de Pologne en l'année 1574 Lyon, Michel Jove & Jean Pillehotte, 1575. Booklet in-8, 14 pages, bottle-green chagrin, diamond-rectangle decoration with cold-stamped fillets, long gilt title on spine, gilt head (A. Lobtsein). Extremely rare first edition of this poem celebrating the accession of King Henri III, in which Ronsard recalls the young king's glorious military past. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°29. - Baudrier, II, p. 137. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°95. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., no. 756.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 105 - 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.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 106 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Élégies, mascarades et bergerie. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1565. In-4, brown morocco, covers framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a large mosaic of interlacing in fawn morocco, spine decorated with a gilt numeral repeated in caissons drawn by fawn morocco scrolls, fawn morocco lining set with a gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, gilt head, case (G. Plumelle). Second edition, published the same year as the original: a first state copy. One of two known copies according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller and N. Ducimetière, along with the one in the Munich library. A collection of occasional pieces composed at the instigation of Catherine de Médicis, containing poems addressed to Queen Elizabeth of England and members of her government, as well as to French sovereigns, princes and aristocrats, including Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX, Louis de Condé, etc. Also included is a Bergerie dedicated to Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX and Louis de Condé. There is also a Bergerie dedicated to Marie Stuart, Queen of Scots, whose actors were to be the children of the royal family along with Henri de Navarre and Henri de Guise, but which was never performed, as well as poems composed for court festivities, collected under the title Mascarades, combatz et cartelz, faitz à Paris et au carnaval de Fontainebleau. With this collection, Ronsard became the official ambassador of Catherine de Médicis: on April 11, 1564, France and England had signed the Treaty of Troyes, which put an end to the long-standing continental claims of the British crown. The time was ripe for reconciliation, and Catherine de Médicis, anxious to maintain cordial relations with Queen Elizabeth, commissioned these verses from Ronsard, her poetic spokesman (N. Ducimetière). Particularly noteworthy is the elegy addressed to Mylord Robert Du-Dlé, Comte de L'Encestre (Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, minister to the Queen of England), whose qualities Ronsard praises, including his courage in battle, his aptitude for music and dance. While his well-known taste for bibliophilia - the bindings made for him bear his emblem, a bear chained to a tree trunk - is not mentioned, the poet does shed light on this dignitary's passion for hunting (12 lines): Nul mieux que toy ne suit par les bocages, / Les Cerfs rameux, ou les Sangliers sauvages... A washed copy, covered in an attractive binding with mosaic decoration in the Renaissance style. It comes from the Maggs collection and was formerly bound by Marmin (cf. Seymour de Ricci, Catalogue of unique early editions of Ronsard, 1927, n°55, pp. 126-127). Upper corner of several leaves restored. Without the last leaf, blank. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°45. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°242. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°13 (this copy). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°738.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lot 107 - RONSARD (Pierre de) et Jean DORAT. - Epitaphs on the tomb of high and mighty lord Anne duc de Montmorancy [sic], pair, et connestable de France. Paris, Ph. G. Derouille, 1567. In-4, blue half calf, smooth ornate spine, marbled edges (Binding circa 1830). First edition of this poetic tomb to the glory of Constable Anne de Montmorency, who died at the age of 75 from wounds received at the battle of Saint-Denis in November 1567. In addition to occasional poems in Latin, French, Greek and Hebrew, by Amadis Jamyn, Denis Lambin, Claude d'Espence, Louis d'Orléans, Étienne Pasquier and others, it contains pieces by Jean Dorat, as well as an epitaph and a distich by Ronsard. A fine copy, finely bound, from the library of Ph. L. Bordes de Fortage. Wide light spotting on a few leaves. Slight rubbing to binding. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II, n°74. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°934.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 108 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Les Estoilles à Monsieur de Pibrac, et deux Responses à deux Elegies envoyées par le feu Roy Charles à Ronsard [...]. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1575. Booklet in-4, 14 leaves, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace (Honegger). First edition, known from only 2 copies according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller: this is the only one in private hands, the other being in the Basel library. This slim booklet brings together several pieces composed at different times. The first is Les Estoilles, a poem of 160 lines, imitated from Michel Marulle's hymn Stellis, in which the Vendôme native speaks of King Charles IX protecting his subjects from heresy and evokes the Duc d'Anjou, future Henri III, esleu par vous en la Poulonne; this piece was composed by Ronsard around 1573-1574 and then addressed to his poet friend Guy du Faur de Pibrac, who accompanied the prince to Poland. Also included are two responses by Ronsard to two short elegies addressed to him by King Charles IX, an Ode à Phoebus pour guarir le Roy Charles IX, and a Discours au Roy Henry à son arrivée en France. Slight wetness to first and last leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, no. 30 ("To conclude, I would like to express the boundless joy I felt in acquiring this treasure: some of the finest verses from the Vendôme region, in a small volume that all Ronsardist bibliophiles have dreamed of..."). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°757.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 109 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Les Quatre premiers livres de la Franciade. Reveuë, & corrigée de nouveau. Turin, Jan François Pico, 1574. In-16, contemporary soft vellum. Very rare pirate edition, probably printed in Lyon, of Ronsard's unfinished epic poem celebrating the French nation. Printed in italic type, it was copied from the last volume of the 1572-1573 collective edition of Ronsard's works. Old manuscript bookplates of the period and of the 17th century at the beginning and end of the volume. Upper stain throughout. Edge of second cover a little gnawed over 7 cm. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, no. 28. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°750.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 110 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - The first four books of the Odes. Ensemble son Bocage. Paris, Guillaume Cavellart [sic], 1550. In-8, fawn calf, double framed with three cold-stamped fillets, gilt fleuron in center and small fleuron at corners, ribbed spine, modern box (period binding). First edition of the first collection of poems by Ronsard (1524-1585). First state copy, without the 2 suravertissement leaves but containing the 2 errata leaves. The collection contains only unpublished poems, with the exception of three pieces. The publication of Ronsard's Odes sounded like a thunderclap in the 16th-century world of letters, turning the landscape of poetry in France upside down. Nourished by the works of Pindar and Horace, Ronsard, who makes no secret of his disdain for the old school, proudly presents himself as the first Lirique François author, and boasts that he was the first to enrich the French language with the term "ode", an old poetic genre prized by the authors of Antiquity: "Quand tu m'appelleras le premier auteur Lirique François, et celui qui a guidé les autres au chemin de si honneste labeur, lors tu me rendras ce que tu me dois [....]. I went to see foreigners, & made myself familiar with Horace, counterfeiting his naive sweetness, in the same way that Clement Marot (the only light in his years of vulgar poetry) labored in the pursuit of his Psalter, & dared, the first of our kind, to enrich my language with the name Ode. The work provoked the strongest reaction from the Marotiques: a literary battle, known as the "Querelle du Louvre", began between the Ancients and the Moderns, represented on one side by Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poet laureate at the court of Henri II, and the young Ronsard. We have bound the sequel: - L'Hymne de France. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Michel Vascosan, 1549. First edition of this poem exalting national sentiment, in 224 flat-rhymed decasyllabic verses; this is the first hymn composed by the poet, who claims the glory of being the first to celebrate France. (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°2. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°19). - Ode de la paix. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1550. First edition, known from only 7 copies according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller. Ode belonging to the pindaric genre, in which Ronsard sings in 500 verses of the peace signed with England in 1550: France paid 400,000 gold écus and the English surrendered Boulogne. In addition, they evacuated Scotland (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 8). A precious volume of three early works by Ronsard, preserved in a Parisian binding strictly contemporary with the editions. From the libraries of Eugène Piot (1891, no. 482), Tobie Gustave Herpin (1903, no. 107), Robert Hoe (1912, no. 2929), William Augustus White and F. M. Weld. Light foxing, small light wetness on a few leaves. Binding restored at corners, spine redone. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°5. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°3. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°46. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°673, 670 and 676.

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Lot 111 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Les Quatre premiers livres des Odes. Paris, Veuve Maurice de La Porte, 1555. - Le Cinqieme des Odes [sic]. Paris, Veuve Maurice de La Porte, 1553. 2 works in one volume, in-8, white calf, framed with three gilded fillets, in the center set off by a semé of gilded flowers, large oval cartouche decorated with interlacing, motifs in spandrels, traces of ties, ornate spine, gilded edges, modern tan calf folder and box (Binding of the period). A very precious volume containing all five books of the Odes collection, preserved in a sumptuous 16th-century gilt white calf binding. Exceptional condition for early editions of French poetry, especially those by the prince of French poets. The volume was put together by an amateur of the period, who collected the following editions: - Les Quatre premiers livres des Odes, 1555. Third edition, containing 21 new pieces. The famous odelette à Cassandre Mignonne, allon voir si la rose..., which originally appeared as an appendix in the 1553 edition of Les Amours, has been given pride of place here by Ronsard, who inserted it into the first book, becoming ode XV. According to J. P. Barbier-Mueller, this is a copy of the intermediate state between the two editions reported by Pereire: the collector has carefully described it and renamed it state b. - Le Cinquième livre des Odes, 1553. Second edition, the first published separately, of the fifth and last book of the Odes collection, which appeared after the Amours of 1552. It contains 9 new pieces. A 4th state copy, described by J. P. Barbier-Mueller as state d. This fifth book opens with the Harangue que fait le Duc de Guise aus soudars de Mez, le iour qu'il pensoit avoir l'assaut, a most eloquent and fiery piece of military exhortation (cf. cat. Berès, Des Valois à Henri IV, n°298). Early handwritten bookplate on the title of the first work: Thomas Mayne. From the Michel de Bry library (1966, no. 185). Fine, wide-margined copies. The binding is superb, although it has lost some of its lustre: it is distinguished by the magnificent, large cartouche with interlace decoration stamped on its boards, which lends it supreme elegance. The binding is very rubbed, with minor restoration to the corners and upper head, and the upper hinge is cracked over the height of two boxes. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°17 and n°13. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., p. 38, binding reproduced. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°686 and 681.

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Lot 112 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Hymnus Calaidis et Zethae. Paris, Pierre L'Huillier, 1586. 2 parts in one volume, in-4, antique limp vellum, red spine binding (Modern binding). First edition of this Latin translation of Ronsard's poem L'Hymne de Calaïs et Zéthes, originally published in the Second livre des Hymnes in 1556. The Latin translation is printed opposite the French text. The Hymn is followed by various opuscules by Jacques Grenier, in Greek, Latin and French, the account of his life (Vita Jacobi Grenerii..., 28 pages), a Hymn on the perfections of his mistress (28 pages), 24 amorous sonnets, and his Tombeau by a mysterious G.A.S.D.L.C. Absolutely nothing is known about the author of this translation: Jacques Grenier (Grenerius in Latin), sieur de Poissy, a poet who died at the age of 22, according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller. A copy of the Lamoignon family, with the characteristic stamp on the second leaf. From the Edmée Maus library (bookplate). Restored worm gallery on several leaves. The volume has been placed in old vellum. Lining and endpapers renewed, restoration to the title-piece, which has been restored. Later handwritten title on first board. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II, n°102. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°382.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 113 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Institution pour l'Adolescence du Roy treschrestien Charles neufiesme de ce nom. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1564. Booklet, in-4, 6 pages (last page unencrypted), brown morocco, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with mosaic fanfare in fawn morocco, gilt numeral in center, gilt title on spine, interior cold fillet, gilt edges, slipcase (G. Plumelle). New edition, following the original published by Gabriel Buon two years earlier. Discourse in verse composed in 1562 for King Charles IX, then aged eleven, in which Ronsard intended to enlighten the young monarch as Erasmus had done for Charles V and Budé for François I. Attractive fanfare binding with mosaic-embossed empty compartments, bearing the collector's number. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°40. - J. P. Barbier-Mueller, Discours politiques, n°19. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°717.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 114 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Panegyrique de la renommee, à Henry troisiesme, Roy de France & de Poloigne. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1579. Plaquette in-4 of 8 leaves, burgundy morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace (Honegger). Second edition of this panegyric, published the same year as the original, known only from the Rothschild copy described by Picot under no. 2888. This would appear to be the only known copy of this second edition: our searches on this subject have been unsuccessful in the main computerized catalogs. Washed copy, the corners showing old traces of cornices. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, no. 32. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°762.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 115 - [RONSARD (Pierre de)]. - Remonstrance to the people of France. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. Plaquette in-8, 17 leaves, burgundy morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine decorated à la grotesque, interior lace, gilt edges, slipcase (E. & A. Maylander). The most violent of Ronsard's diatribes against the Reformed. While painting a picturesque picture of the Reformed, he addresses the theological aspects of the debate, absent from his earlier speeches. While he continues to call for reform of the Catholic Church, he also demands the utmost severity towards heretics (cat. Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, no. 196). A copy belonging to the "first family" group (there are four in all), so named by J. P. Barbier-Mueller to gather and describe copies of the "princeps edition" of the text, known by two editions or two states (cf. Bibliographie des discours politiques de Ronsard, p. 118, and n°53). Fine binding by Maylander. From the libraries of the Marquis de Rochambeau (wet stamp on title), André Rodocanachi and Edmée Maus. Last leaf missing, blank. Slight wetness at the bottom of the last leaf. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°37 ("Second edition, or second (hybrid) state of the first edition"). - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., no. 120. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°728.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 116 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Le Second livre des meslanges. Paris, Pour Robert Le Mangnier, 1559. In-8, dark-brown morocco, boards framed with cold fillet and decorated with Renaissance scrollwork in straight, curved and interlaced fawn morocco, gilded numeral in center, ornate spine, fawn morocco lining with gilded fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, gilded edges, slipcase (G. Plumelle 1978). An extremely rare first edition, of which only a few copies exist, and of which there are two states. It was shared between Vincent Sertenas and Robert Le Mangnier. A first state copy, with initial uncorrected errors. Only two copies are known to bear the name of Robert Le Mangnier: this one, and the one in the Martin Bodmer Foundation. The Second livre des meslanges, composed a long time before the death of the King (Henri II), is entirely unpublished: it includes a pastoral epigram by Joachim du Bellay in favor of Ronsard, a series of 21 sonnets addressed to various people (the King, the dauphin François, Marguerite de Savoie, Diane de Poitiers, Cardinal Charles de Lorraine, Jodelle, Olivier de Magny, etc.), 16 love sonnets dedicated to Ronsard, and the first edition of the Second livre des meslanges.), 16 amorous sonnets dedicated to a mysterious muse named Sinope, 2 poems by Tournais poet Louis des Masures, and a sonnet by Vendômois to the same Des Masures. This volume would once have been part of a dummy collection of Ronsardian texts given to the novelist and critic Jules Janin by the actress Eugénie Doche (1821-1900), who created the role of Dame aux camélias by Dumas fils in 1852. According to J. P. Barbier-Mueller, this is a piece of the collection that Prosper Blanchemain acquired at the Janin sale in 1877, then had broken in two. Very attractive mosaic binding, with the collector's cipher, in the style of those produced in the 16th century for Grolier. Leaf 35 is in facsimile. Outer margin of leaves e4 to e8 rebound. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°27. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°10 (Of capital importance in Ronsard's work, this slim collection remained for a long time one of the least known because of its proverbial rarity). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°708.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 117 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Le Tombeau de tresillustre princesse Marguerite de France, duchesse de Savoye. Ensemble celuy de tresauguste & tressaincte memeoire, François premier de ce nom, & de Messieurs ses enfans. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1575. Plaquette in-4 of 14 leaves, fawn morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, spine decorated with repeated numeral, black morocco lining set with gilt fillet, chocolate moire endpapers, smooth edges (Honegger). Second edition of this literary tomb composed for Marguerite de France, sister of Henri II, who was the protector of the Prince of French poets. It contains, in separate pagination, the Estreines au Roy Henri III..., in which Ronsard claims the right to freely criticize those close to the royal family, and castigates the king's sweethearts for dressing in foreign fashions. Bound in the collector's coat of arms and cipher. More or less heavy staining at the bottom of the first three quires. Numerous blank leaves subsequently bound to thicken the volume. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°31. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°759.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 118 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Les Œuvres. Reveuës, corrigées & augmentées par l'Autheur peu avant son trespas. Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1587. 10 volumes bound in 5 in-12, black morocco, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with mosaic Renaissance decoration in fawn morocco, gilt numeral in center, spine decorated with repeated numeral, fawn morocco lining, chocolate moire endpapers, slipcases (Honegger). First posthumous edition and seventh collective edition of Ronsard's works, entirely prepared by the poet on the basis of the in-folio edition of 1584. It is extremely rare and of great importance, as it reflects the last wishes of the Prince of Poets for correction and classification (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). Having just completed the Grand Œuvre of 1584, Ronsard set about correcting it for a new collective. Death prevented him from seeing the publication of the latter, which was assured by his two executors, Claude Binet, a magistrate-poet who had won Ronsard's confidence in the last years of his life [...], and Jean Galland, principal of the Collège de Boncourt, the friend and confidant of old age. According to Claude Binet himself, upon his death Ronsard left him his works "corrected by his last hand to keep them in order for printing". He also gave his literary executors the manuscripts of the new pieces he wanted to appear in this final edition, along with precise indications of its layout (Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°270). Attractive binding decorated with a mosaic motif in the Renaissance style, bearing the collector's number. From the library of academician Ferdinand Brunetière (1849-1906). The first volume shows old handwritten notes in the margins, sometimes in Greek; the last volume is ruled. Some dampstaining and foxing, very numerous in the fourth volume. Minor crack restored to the corner of 4 leaves of notebook G in the second volume. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°34. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°768.

Estim. 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

Lot 119 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Œuvres [...]. Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1604. 10 volumes in 5 in-12, red chagrin, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Binding circa 1840). Ninth official collective edition, or tenth if we include Soubron's pirate edition in Lyon. It was published by Jean Galland, the poet's universal heir, in collaboration with Nicolas Buon and the lawyer-poet Nicolas Richelet. A well-bound copy circa 1840, to which has been added, at the end of the fifth volume, a final volume of the Recueil des sonnets, odes, hymnes, élégies, et autres pièces retranchées... from the Tibout & Rolin Baraigne edition of 1630 (pp. 457-855 and 5 ff. table for this last volume). In Volume II, several quires are short at the head with several running titles and page numbers affected by the binder's knife. Transverse tear without missing leaf B2 in the fifth volume. Browning to a few leaves. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, no. 35. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°770.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 120 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Les Œuvres. Revueues et augmentees. Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1609. Large folio volume, fawn calf, gilt fillet, gilt foliage medallion in center, ornate spine (Binding of the period). Eleventh collective edition, partly original, decorated with a fine architectural title-frontispiece engraved in intaglio by Léonard Gaultier and three woodcut portraits of Ronsard, Cassandre and Marc-Antoine Muret. It contains the Recueil des sonnets, odes, hymnes, élégies...(132 pages), which appears here for the first time, and includes a number of previously unpublished pieces, such as the 8 sonnets inspired by Hélène de Surgères and the very important Caprice à Simon Nicolas, secrétaire du roi et de ses finances, written after June 1584, the date of the death of the Duc d'Anjou and which marks Ronsard's rallying to Henri de Navarre, whose candidacy for the throne of France he accepts if he converts. Everything here contributes to Ronsard's consecration: the chosen format; the title, which presents him as the prince of French poets; the engraved frame, by Léonard Gaultier, with Ronsard's bust crowned by Homer and Virgil (Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°273). Old handwritten bookplate on false title and frontispiece. From the Auguste-Pierre Garnier library (bookplate). Pleasant contemporary binding, decorated with a gilt foliage medallion in the center of the boards. Binding restored (spines and headbands), with new lining and endpapers. Covers foxed, restoration to the edge of the faux-titre and in the margin of the title-frontispiece. Tear without missing leaf Oooo1 (pp. 985-986), numerous spots. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 61. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°771.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 121 - RONSARD (Pierre de). - Elegie au jésuite qui list gratis en l'université à Paris. S.l.n.n., 1565. Plaquette in-4, 8 pages, black morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, double gilt fillet inside, gilt edges, slipcase (G. Plumelle). Anonymous translation of In sotericum gratis docentem, a satire written by Adrian Turnèbe against the Jesuits. There are two translations of this pamphlet, this one by Jean Passerat dit N. Ducimetière (cf. cat Mignonne..., p. 186), and another by Étienne Pasquier printed under the title Contre le jésuite, soy disant enseigner gratis. The work contains 4 verse pieces by Ronsard, including a sonnet À la société des Jésuites. Copy from the Ernest Stroehlin library (1912, no. 883), rebound by J. P. Barbier-Mueller with his coat of arms. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°73. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°740.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 122 - ROULLIARD (Sébastien). - Sebastiani Rolliardi [...] Agrocharis. E Gallico V. C. V. F. Pybracii Poemate. Paris, Petrum Labelum, 1598. In-8, marbled calf, gilt roulette, ornate smooth spine, long green title page, yellow edges speckled with red (18th century binding). First edition. In addition to the poetry of Sébastien Roulliard, a poet and lawyer from Melun who died in 1639, this work contains the first Latin translation, under the title Agrocharis, of Guy du Faur de Pibrac's Plaisirs de la vie rustique, with the French text printed alongside the Latin version. Early handwritten bookplate on title and at end. Title stained with ink flecks, occasional heavy light spotting. Hinges rubbed and one spine exposed. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°783.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 123 - SAINTE-MARTHE (Scévole de). - V. C. Scaevolae Sammarthani Quaestoris Franciae Tumulus. Paris, Jacques Villery, 1630. 4 parts in one volume in-4, red chagrin, double cold fillet, ornate spine, gilt edges (Modern binding). Important poetic tomb published in tribute to Scévole de Sainte-Marthe (1536-1623), the great poet and humanist from Loudun. No fewer than 80 authors lent their pens to this work, delivering a wealth of Latin epitaphs, Greek verses and, above all, numerous French pieces: Lachèvre has listed 44 French pieces signed by 29 authors, including Guillaume Colletet, author of Scévole ou Chant pastoral sur le trespas de Monsieur de Sainte-Marthe, Théophraste Renaudot and Tristan L'Hermite. The names of Daniel Heinsius, Hugo Grotius and Fédéric Morel can also be found here and there, among others. The two concluding funeral orations are in continuous pagination, but each has its own title page with the address Paris, 1629: they were delivered in Loudun in 1623, the first by Urbain Grandier, the other by Théophraste Renaudot. Worm spotting and light wetness on the edges of a few leaves, restoration in the margins of several leaves. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies, I, pp. 85-86. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°958.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 124 - SALEL (Hugues). - HOMÈRE. - Les Dix premiers livres de l'Iliade d'Homère [...]. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1555. - Les Unzième, & douzième livres de l'Iliade. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1554. 2 works in one volume in-8, fawn calf, gilt fillet, gilt cartouche in center, spine decorated, gilt edges (period binding). Famous translation in decasyllables of the first eleven chants of the Iliad by Hugues Salel (1504-1553), poet and valet de chambre to François I. The translation of the first ten songs had first appeared in folio format in 1545. Among the introductory pieces are the Epistre de Dame Poésie, dedicated to King François I, sponsor of this glorious literary undertaking, and Ronsard's epitaph Aux mânes de Salel, which appears here for the first time: in this eulogistic piece, reprinted a few months later in Le Bocage, the Vendôme native salutes the translator of Homer, the humanist poet and protégé of the great French king. Fine copy, in contemporary calf, from the Am. Berton library (bookplate). Old handwritten bookplate at the top of the title and at the end of the volume. Bottom of title restored. Heads and shoulders restored, spine rebound. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II, n°67. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°800-801.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 125 - SORBIN (Arnaud). - Le Vray discours des derniers propos mémorables, et trespas du feu Roy de tresbonne mémoire Charles neufiesme. Paris, Pour Lienard le Sueur, 1574. - SORBIN (Arnaud). Oraison funèbre du treshault, puissant et treschrestien Roy de France, Charles IX. Paris, Guillaume Chaudière, 1574. - SORBIN (Arnaud). Seconde oraison funèbre du tres-chrestien et puissant Roy de France, Charles IX. Ibid. Together 3 works in an in-8 volume, havane morocco, jansenist, interior roulette, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). First edition of these three eulogies of King Charles IX, whose death on May 30, 1574 at the age of 24 gave rise to several Tombeaux written in his memory. The two orations are the work of Arnaud Sorbin (1532-1606), known as de Sainte-Foy, preacher, confessor to the king and bishop of Nevers; the Vray discours, on the other hand, remains anonymous, although he is often credited with its authorship. The Vray discours contains 2 sonnets by Robert Garnier and a 12-verse piece entitled Epitaphe sur la devise du feu Roy Charles neufviesme by Amadis Jamyn, Ronsard's secretary and disciple. From the Guy Pellion library (not in the 1882 catalog). Slight rubbing to binding. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°939-941.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 126 - [SORBIN (Arnaud)]. - Oraison funèbre de noble Paul de Caussade, Seigneur de S. Maigrin, Gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy, Maistre de camp de la Cavallerie legere de France. Pronounced in the Church of S. Paul, en Paris, le 25 de Juillet, 1578. Paris, Guillaume Chaudière, 1578. In-8, glazed blond calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, black parts, interior lace, gilt edges (Petit succr de Simier). First edition. Funeral oration for Paul de Stuer de Caussade, Marquis de Saint-Mégrin (1554-1578), one of Henri III's sweethearts. He was murdered for having been the lover of Catherine de Clèves, duchess of Guise, wife of Henri de Lorraine, known as le Balafré, probably by the latter's people. A fine copy, well bound in glazed calf. Beginning of a split at one joint. Hinges rubbed. Picot, Rothschild, n°343. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°943.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 127 - SPIFAME (Martin). - Les Premières œuvres poétiques. Paris, Pour la Veuve Lucas Breyer, 1583. In-12, dark blue morocco, double cold fillet, gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (H. Duru). Second edition of this extremely rare collection of poems. Dedicated to Henri III, it contains numerous spiritual sonnets, mainly relating to moral philosophy and the Holy Scriptures. There is also a poem addressed to Princess Henriette de Clèves, Duchesse de Nivernois, entitled La Loüange du mariage contre Desportes, a Tombeau de Messire Gilles Spifame évêque de Nevers, and songs. An admirable Harangue de la parfaite amitié closes the collection. The poet is less well known than his brother Raoul, an insane lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, whom Nerval portrayed as the King of Bicêtre in his Illuminés. In his preface to the reader, the latter informs us that his work was first printed in Bourges (around the mid-1570s), but that the edition, which was very faulty, had to be withdrawn entirely from the market. A fine copy, bearing the arms of the Marquis de Coislin. It belonged to General Jacques Willems and appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog, Des Valois à Henri IV, under no. 325. From the libraries of the Marquis de Coislin (not described in the 1847 and 1857 catalogs), Félix Solar (1860, n°1257) and William Martin (1869, n°469). Renouard, Breyer, n°50. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°810.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 128 - TABOUROT (Étienne). - Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accordz. Paris, Jean Richer, 1583. In-16, speckled basane, ornate spine, initial F stamped at head, red title page, red speckled edges (Binding circa 1800). First edition of this delightfully motley collection composed by Tabourot (1549-1590) at the age of 18. Tchemerzine reports two editions of the same date, but it's not clear which was the first: our copy has 12 and 219 leaves (216 leaves in the other edition). The work was a great success. It contains many free passages, and today constitutes a most valuable guide to the study of our ancient poetry, as the author provides a wealth of information on rebuses, anagrams, echoes, equivocations and all the verse forms in use at the time. Handwritten bookplate on title Constantin, dated 1638. From the Jacques Dennery library (I, 1984, no. 197). Browning on endpapers and flyleaves. Hinges cracked and fragile, head cap restored. Picot, Rothschild, n°1777. - Tchemerzine, t. V, p. 832. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°813.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 129 - TABOUROT (Étienne). - Les Touches. Premier [- Cinquiesme] livre. Paris, Jean Richer, 1585-1588. Together 3 volumes in-12, preserved in a red half-maroquin banded box, compartmentalized, and case (P.-L. Martin). Complete collection of all five books, in first edition, of this famous collection of verse epigrams. Extremely difficult to form. Étienne Tabourot (1549-1590) occupies an important place in the literary history of the 16th century. A lawyer at the parliament of his native Dijon, and a convinced ligueur, he is best known for his facetious works signed with his pen name: le Seigneur des Accordz. He was a friend of Pontus de Tyard, whose Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines he published in 1585, and to whom he dedicated the first book of Les Touches. Divided into five books, Les Touches forms a kind of poetic joust through which, by means of touches and counter touches, the poet paints a truculent picture of his times. It is in this work that Tabourot best reveals his satirical verve. The first volume, containing books I to III, is in Bauzonnet-Trautz red morocco, from the libraries of the Comte de Lurde and Baron de Ruble (1899, no. 206), and P. Grandsire. The second volume is in mid-nineteenth-century red morocco; the last, in jansenist blue morocco signed by Cuzin, bears the Grandsire bookplate. These extremely rare volumes are presented in a three-compartment box lined with red nubuck by Pierre-Lucien Martin. The bottom of the title of the second volume has been redone (date and privilege in facsimile) and the binding shows some scuffing. Paper of the last volume slightly and evenly foxed, and restoration in the margin and at the corner of a few leaves at the end. Tchemerzine, t. V, pp. 834-835. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°821, 824 and 825.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lot 130 - THOU (Jacques-Auguste de). - Parabata vinctus, sive triumphus christi, tragoedia. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1595. In-8, fawn calf, boards decorated with gilded right-hand lace and a fleur-de-lis semé, small oval medallion in the center bearing the words collegium / marchianum, ornate spine with repetition of the fleur-de-lis semé in the caissons, marbled edges (17th-century binding). First edition of this tragedy, a verse imitation of Aeschylus' Prometheus in Chains. The humanist composed it after his recovery from the plague: "His illness came from the four-month stay he had made in the camp before Roüen, where the air corrupted by the length of the siege had caused the plague. In fact, after three days, the kind of coals that are the sure signs of this disease were seen around his kidneys, and we absolutely despaired of his recovery. [The coals dissipated, his strength recovered [...], and his health returned entirely some time later [...]. His first care after his recovery was to give God public tokens of his gratitude for all the graces he had received from His goodness; he brought to light a Latin poem [...] (Mémoires de la vie de Jacques-Auguste de Thou in, J.-A. de Thou, Histoire universelle..., I, 1734, p. 207). Prize binding from Collège de La Marche, with fleurdelisé decoration. A university institution founded around 1362 in the former premises of the Collège de Constantinople by Jean de La Marche and, after his death, by his nephew Guillaume, the Collège de La Marche was transferred in 1420 to the mountain of Sainte-Geneviève, sheltered from the floods of the Seine. The college had a great reputation (its students included Jean Calvin and Nicolas Malebranche) and survived until the French Revolution. Light foxing on the edges of a few leaves. Renouard, Estienne, p. 190. - Soleinne, I, 1843, n°227. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°840.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 131 - THOU (Jean de). - V. C. Joannis Thuani, Regis Consiliarii & libellorum supplicum in Regia Magistri, Tumulus. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1580. 32-page in-4 booklet, soft ivory parchment (modern binding). First edition of this poetic tomb published after the death in 1579 of Jean de Thou, maître des requêtes de l'Hôtel du Roi and brother of the famous bibliophile Jacques-Auguste. Of the 25 pieces, 6 are by Jean Dorat, 3 by Jean Passerat, 2 by Nicolas Rapin, and one by Jacques-Auguste de Thou, brother of the deceased. From the Charles Cammell library (armorial bookplate). Marginal light foxing. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésie du XVIe siècle, pp. 249-250. - Renouard, p. 182. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°948.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 132 - TOMBEAU DE MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ROYNE DE NAVARRE (Le). Faictierement en Disticques Latins par les trois Sœurs Princesses en Angleterre. Depuis traduictz en Grec, Italien, & François par plusieurs des excellent Poëz de la France. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Michel Fezandat & Robert Granjon, 1551. In-8, jansenist green morocco, interior lace, gilt head, untrimmed (Early 20th century binding). First edition of this poetic tomb erected in tribute to Queen Marguerite de Navarre, sister of François I, protector of the arts and distinguished poetess, who died in December 1549. It is dedicated to the late author of the Heptameron by the poet Nicolas Denisot, who signs the dedication with his anagram le Conte d'Alsinois; opposite the dedication is a portrait of the departed queen, dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and wearing a templette, holding a book in her hands, a woodcut probably inspired by a painting in the Musée Condé, dated circa 1540 and attributed to François Clouet. The collection is built around a hundred Latin couplets composed by sisters Anne, Marguerite and Jane Seymour, daughters of the Duke of Somerset, whose tutor Denisot had been. Each is accompanied by a Greek version by Jean Dorat, an Italian translation by Jean-Pierre de Mesmes, and two or three French translations by Joachim du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Nicolas Denisot and Antoinette de Loynes. This series of couplets is preceded and followed by some 50 poems by Baïf, Du Bellay, Dorat, Du Tillet, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe and Ronsard; among the 4 unpublished pieces by Le Vendômois are the ode Aux trois sœurs... which opens the collection and praises the poetic talent of the Seymour sisters, a Hymne triomphal and a pastoral ode entitled Aux cendres de Marguerite de Valois. Fine copy, complete with the last leaf containing a Latin poem by Denisot in the form of an epitaph. It bears the engraved armorial bookplate H. D. Seymour Esq. (19th century), perhaps a member of the illustrious family to which the Seymour daughters belonged? Title remounted. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 64. - Brun, p. 303. - Picot, Rothschild, n°628. - Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°21. - Tchemerzine, IV, p. 374. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°931.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 133 - TRÉDÉHAN (Pierre). - VIRGILE. - Les Quatre premiers livres de l'Éneide de P. Virgile Maron. [Genève], Abel Rivery, 1575. In-8, jansenist tan morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Hans Asper). First edition of the translation in heroic verse by the Angevin poet Pierre Trédéhan (1533-1583). The French translation, printed in italics, is placed opposite the Latin version, which is in Roman characters. It is extremely rare: the GLN 15-16 database, which lists books printed in Geneva in the 16th century, lists only 2 copies, one in the BnF (Arsenal) and the other in the Geneva library. Abel Rivery's typographical mark on the title (Silvestre, n°1252). In their work on Protestant France (t. IX, p. 411), Messrs. Haag relate that, during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacres, our poet escaped from Lyon, where he was a proofreader in a printing house, and managed to reach Geneva in November 1572, where he became regent. Trédéhan also evokes this troubled period in an epistle to the reader, recounting the imprisonments, renunciations & other such cruelties he had to endure like many of his fellow Reformed citizens; he continues, in a bitter tone: Ie me contenteray seulement de regretter toute ma vie plusieurs beaux livres qui m'ont été miserablement saccagez, ravis, & bruslez, entre autres ma traduction des Georgiques de nos poete, en laquelle i'avoy consommé beaucoup de temps avec peine indicible. From the library of Ernest Strohelin (1844-1907), a fine provenance for this historian of Protestantism who assembled a valuable collection on the subject. Some wine-red dampstaining at the beginning of the volume, resulting in a few restorations, including letters and part of the typographical mark redone in pen. Spotting on boards. The unprinted name of the town has been added to the title page. GLN-2565. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°842.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 134 - TRELLON (Claude de). - The Works. Divided into four Books. - Le Ligueur repenty. Lyon, Thibaud Ancelin, 1595. 2 works in one in-12 volume, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Bauzonnet-Trautz). Second collective edition, after the one published the previous year by the same publisher, of the works of this Languedoc poet-soldier, and first edition of Le Ligueur repenty, a book of stanzas and sonnets favorable to Henri IV. The collective edition includes the Amours de Sylvie, the Amours de Felice, the Pèlerin, the Meslanges and the Hermitage. Unlike the 1594 edition, which is disavowed by the poet himself in a notice to the reader, the free poems are not included. Stamp of an ecclesiastical library (18th century) on the last leaf, erased on the title. The copy comes from the Marigues de Champs-Repus library (1893, n°127). It belonged to General Jacques Willems and appeared in the Berès bookshop catalog Des Valois à Henri IV, under no. 333. Discrete restorations in the margins of a few leaves, notably to the title, some letters of which have been carefully redone in ink. Minor rubbing to binding. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, pp. 360-361. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°850-851.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 135 - TRELLON (Claude de). - Le Cavalier parfait. Où sont comprinses toutes ses œuvres, divisées en quatre livres. Lyon, Thibaud Ancelin, 1599. In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Second edition published under this title, after that of 1597, of this poetic collection by Claude de Trellon, a Languedoc soldier-poet. Le Cavalier parfait is divided into four books. It includes the Amours de Sylvie, the Pèlerin, the Amours de Felice, several sonnets, speeches, tombeaux and other poems, grouped together under the title Meslanges, as well as the Hermitage and the Lamentations. As the author announces in his preface, the thousand verses full of madness that animated the Warrior Muse and the Flame of Love are not to be found here. From the Octave de Béhague library (I, 1880, n°626). Upper hinge rubbed. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs de poésies libres et satiriques, p. 361. - Viollet-le-Duc, pp. 313-315. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°852.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 136 - TRELLON (Gabriel de). - Six chants, des vertus. Paris, Guillaume Bichon, 1587. In-12, contemporary vellum. Extremely rare first edition of this poem in six songs divided into stanzas of eight verses, on the theme of virtues. The poem is preceded by a dedication to the Duc de Joyeuse and a lengthy preface to the reader. Gabriel de Trellon (spelled Trelon in the book), King's Councillor at the Parliament of Toulouse, was the brother of Claude de Trellon, the author of La Muse guerrière: the penultimate leaf contains a sonnet by the latter, addressed to his brother. Bichon's typographical mark on the title (Silvestre, n°1282). From the libraries of Herpin (1903, n°237), Frédéric Lachèvre, and Marie Chèvre (I, 2011, n°242). Small split without missing on the edge of the title, a few soiled first leaves. Small tear on spine. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°844.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 137 - TURNÈBE (Adrien). - Adriani Turnebi [...], Tumulus, A Doctis quibusdam viris, è Graeco, Latino, & Gallico carmine excitatus. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1565. Plaquette in-4 of 10 leaves, bradel ivory vellum, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in center, smooth mute spine (Modern binding). First edition of this literary tomb of Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), a great Renaissance humanist who was notably the King's printer for Greek (1552). (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°71.) It comprises 9 pieces, including an unpublished sonnet by Ronsard entitled Sur le trespas d'Adrian Turnèbe. A vellum copy bearing the collector's coat of arms. The second leaf, unsigned, is rebacked.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 138 - TYARD (Pontus de). - Homilies, ou Discours sur l'oraison dominicale, escritte au 6. de S. Matthieu, & 11. de S. Luc. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1585. Small in-12, red morocco, cold fillet, ornate spine, small inner lace, gilt edges (mid-19th century binding). First edition, dedicated to Henri III. This is the first of four Homilies composed by Pontus de Tyard and published during his episcopate at Chalon-sur-Saône. The other two were published by the same publisher in 1586, and the fourth was given in Paris by Claude Chappelet in 1588. Title printed in red and black type, adorned with the Estienne typographical mark. The sermon is preceded by two pieces by Jean Dorat, one in Greek and the other in Latin. Fine copy. Small brown spot at the corner of folio 78. Spine slightly faded and rubbing to binding. Renouard, Estienne, p. 185. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°869.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 139 - TYARD (Pontus de). - Les Discours philosophiques [...]. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1599. In-4, covered vellum (contemporary binding). Collective edition of Pontus de Tyard's five philosophical and scientific treatises, published since 1552 in Lyon and Paris, i.e. the Solitaire premier and Solitaire second, the Discours du Temps, de l'An et de ses parties, L'Univers ou Discours des parties de la nature du monde, and Mantice ou Discours de la vérité de divination par astrologie. This is a reissue of the first collective edition of 1587, with a change of title and the deletion of the introductory leaves containing the author's portrait and dedication to Henri III. It is extremely rare: Jean Balsamo and Michel Simonin cite only 2 copies, this one and the one preserved in the library of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Mihiel (shelfmark PQ 621). Copy in contemporary vellum, complete with fold-out plate depicting the monochord. Marginal foxing and dampening, paper missing from the corners of leaves 249 and 250, inner margin of leaf 254 reinforced. Small cracks and tears without missing plate. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, no. 52. - Balsamo & Simonin, n°331. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°874.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 140 - [TYARD (Pontus de)]. - Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines, avec la description pour la Peinture, & les Epigrammes. Paris, Jean Ricer, 1586. In-12, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Collection of verse and prose pieces written by Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605) in the 1550s to guide the artists responsible for the interior decoration of the Château d'Anet, rebuilt in 1548 under the direction of Philibert de L'Orme for Diane de Poitiers. It was originally published in 1585 by the same publisher, unbeknownst to the poet, by his friend Étienne Tabourot, author of Les Bigarrures and Les Touches. The work comprises 12 allegorical fables in prose on the mythology of rivers and fountains, each followed by a Description pour la peinture and an epigram. The painter, [...] with Pontus's book in hand, had only to let his brush go to multiply the fairy tales of Anet (Abel Jeandet). A very fine copy. Small tear without missing at the head of f. B6. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°50. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2600. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°870.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

JEAN PAUL BARBIER-MUELLER'S POETIC LIBRARY - Part 3

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JEAN PAUL BARBIER-MUELLER'S POETIC LIBRARY - Part 3

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