RONSARD (Pierre de).

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RONSARD (Pierre de).
The Works. Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1609. Large volume in folio, marbled basane, decorated spine, two-tone boxes (apple green and fir green) decorated with gilt irons and fleurons, red edges (18th century binding). Tchemerzine, vol. V, p.487. Eleventh collective edition, partly original. Shared between Nicolas Buon and Barthélemy Macé, it contains some previously unpublished pieces, notably sonnets inspired by Hélène de Surgères, the verses taken from the collective edition of 1584, the funeral oration by Du Perron, as well as the important Caprice à Simon Nicolas, secretary to the king and his finances, which marks Ronsard's rallying cry to Henri de Navarre (cf. Ronsard: la trompette et la lyre, cat. BnF, n°273). The edition is adorned with a very beautiful title-frontispiece (here in the first edition) engraved on copper by Léonard Gaultier, representing a portico supporting the bust of the writer crowned by Homer and Virgil, and against which are leaning Venus and Mars, the wood portrait of Marc-Antoine Muret, the commentator of Love, and those of Ronsard and Cassandra, also engraved on wood in the text. Pleasant copy in a very decorative 18th century binding. Handwritten ex-libris dated 1618 with the title of the Elegies: Jean Coadou (?). From the library of the abbot of Pennamprat, of the Royal Society (ex-libris). Long manuscript note dated 1866-1873 relating to this copy and giving a detailed table of the particularities existing between this edition and that of 1623. Clear marginal moulding on a few leaves, a preliminary leaf is missing. RONSARD. See lot 284. RUSSIA. See lots 86, 193 and 248.
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