MARIEL - Lot 49

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MARIEL - Lot 49
MARIEL La méthode des Princes, nouvelles et facile pour apprendre (...) la langue latine. In Paris, Veuve de Claude Thiboust, 1687. In-12 (152 x 91 mm.), of [4] ff., 128 pp., [2] ff. of privileges. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards with large gilt corner fleurons, arms in the center, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt roulette on the edges and the covers, gilt edges. (binding of the period). Rare ORIGINAL EDITION of this grammatical treatise, dedicated to the Duke of Burgundy whose father, the great Dauphin, had as tutor the bishop of Meaux, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet from 1670 to 1681. In the 17th century Latin was still a living language whose teaching was assured by the universities and from 1603 onwards, by the Jesuit colleges. The courses were intended from childhood for the sons of the aristocracy and the upper middle class. This method to learn the Latin language turns out to be in addition a grammar of the French language: "To conjugate in another language, it is necessary to know how to conjugate in ours, that is why... in order to be able to use more easily the Latin verbs, it is good to know how to conjugate the French verbs". Numerous tables, very clear, complete the method. A superb copy in red morocco with the coat of arms of Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET (1627-1704), the famous orator who had resigned from his bishopric of Condom in 1671 after having become tutor of the Dauphin. It is this function which in all likelihood incited him to welcome with interest this new grammatical method intended for the Duke of Burgundy in his library. Four small handwritten notes have been written in the margins of the volume, one of which is in ink. According to a commentary on the last flyleaf, they are in Bossuet's hand, suggesting that the work was studied by its first owner. At his death Bossuet bequeathed his library to his nephew, the bishop of Troyes who continued to enrich it. The whole was dispersed on December 3, 1742. PROVENANCE: Bossuet (arms on the binding). De Cayrol Library (signature in ink and its wet stamp, sale 1861, n°743). Laurent François-Felix Veydt (dry stamp on the endpaper, Brussels, sale in 1873). Eugène Muller ("Sale of rare and precious books composing the Library of the late Mr. Eugène Muller, notary in Brussels, 11 and 12 March 1892", n°68, 310 F). Leaves G3 and G4 interchanged by the binder, a few tiny freckles and a small ink stain on the bottom edge of the last 20 leaves. Very small crack at the top of the upper spine and minor rubbing.
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