SONAN (Arthus Biard, sieur de)

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SONAN (Arthus Biard, sieur de)
Chriserionte de Gaule. Memorable story, newly & miraculously found in the Holy Land. Lyon, Pour Barthélemy Vincent, 1620. In-8, 4 ff.n.ch., 225 pp. (badly figured: the pagination jumps from 192 to 143, and continues until 225), 4 ff.n.ch.: semi-flexible red morocco with overlap, plates decorated with a Du Seuil style decoration, smooth spine decorated with an iron arranged alternately around two titled boxes, inside roulette, gilt edges on marbling (binding of the end of the XVIIth century). Rare first edition of this chivalry novel imitated from the Amadis de Gaule cycle. Arthus Biard, sieur de Sonan, friend of Marc Papillon de Laphrise, was one of the hundred gentlemen of the King's House. His Chrisérionte borrows from the most cherished themes of chivalric literature: tournaments, glorious fights between knights, against monsters (notably a beast with three dragon heads), giants and magicians, enchanted islands, etc. Very nice copy bound for one of the Curieux around 1700 in soft morocco decorated with the archaic "Gallic Antiquities". The binding is indeed characteristic of a group of bindings made between 1695 and 1705 for the same Parisian amateur. "His identity remains unknown to this day, although he possessed a rather important collection of printed books bound in a similar condition and manuscripts that were sometimes very precious, such as the manuscript of the City of God which was copied in 1375 for King Charles V" (Jean-Marc Chatelain, Un cabinet d'amateur à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: le marquis de Méjanes bibliophile, 2006, nº 61.- Conihout and Ract-Madoux, Reliures du XVIIe siècle, chefs-d'œuvre du Musée Condé,2002, p. 101, about the bindings of the group known as the Gallic Antiquities: "This group, the most surprising and interesting of the archaic family, is the work of a curious person whom we have not yet identified with certainty. The bindings, almost all in red morocco, are often supple with small overlaps. The
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