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PASSERAT, Jean - Lot 191
PASSERAT, Jean Recueil des œuvres poetiques [followed by:] Kalendae Ianuariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1606 DEDICATION COPY BY SULLY, BEARING AN AUTOGRAPH EX-DONO BY HENRY IV'S MINISTER. COPY IN CONTEMPORARY VELLUM. FORMER COLLECTION OF PRESIDENT BOUHIER Two works in one in-8 volume (175 x 111mm). First volume in French, second volume in Latin. COLLATION: 4 ff.n.ch. (title, dedication, sonnet, portrait), 464 pp. 4 ff.n.ch.; 8 ff.n.ch., 248 pp. (the last erroneously numbered 148), 4 ff.n.ch. ILLUSTRATION: copper-engraved portrait of Jean Passerat by Thomas de Leu (Brunet and Thiébaud require a portrait in the second work, in a8v: the verso here is blank). CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Ivory vellum with flap, long spine EX-DONO autograph signed in brown ink on first flyleaf: Donné à mon amy Pierre Matthieu de la Basty le Sire de Givry. Secrétaire conseiller du Roy. Sully PROVENANCE: Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully (1559-1641; ex-dono) -- Jean Bouhier, President of the Dijon Parliament (1673-1746; handwritten bookplate on title page) One quire uncropped. Without the second portrait of Passerat in a8v: the verso of the folio, present in this copy, is blank. Jean Passerat (1534-1602) was professor of eloquence and Latin poetry at the Collège de France. The original edition appeared in 1596. This much-expanded edition was published after his death by his cousin J. de Rougevalet from the Passerat manuscripts. Among the various poetic pieces are hunting poems: "Le Cerf d'amour", "Le Chien courant" and "Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier". The edition was split between two editors, Abel L'Angelier and Claude Morel. The Latin edition of the poems, published at the same time as the French edition, by the same publishers, is sometimes bound after it, mainly in copies bound at the time, as is the case here. However, these are two distinct typographical entities. The second portrait of Passerat required by Brunet and Thiébaud has not, in this copy, been printed on the verso of folio a8. The work is dedicated to Sully, then at the height of his fame. Henri IV's minister gave it to a certain Pierre Matthieu, "secrétaire conseiller du Roy". This may have been Pierre Matthieu (1563-1621), poet and historiographer to Henri IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 6015799 -- Brunet, IV, 417 -- Thiébaud, 713
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