BINET (Claude).

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BINET (Claude).
Ɵ Oratio pestilentiae tempore. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1581. Booklet in-4, marbled basane, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (Binding circa 1900). First edition of this Latin oration against the plague, composed by Claude Binet, poet and first biographer of Ronsard. In 1580, the capital had been ravaged by a particularly violent epidemic, "taking away 40,000 people and making Paris almost deserted, given over to disorder and pillage" reports Jacques-Auguste de Thou in his Histoire universelle. Typographical mark with the Olivier on the title. Precious copy having belonged to François Rasse des Neux, famous Parisian surgeon and bibliophile of the 16th century, with his autograph signature at the bottom of the title dated 1581. First entered into the service of Catherine de Médicis, then of Jeanne d'Albret, Rasse des Neux had a large library and a cabinet of curiosities. On this "committed collector", refer to the articles of Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer : Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey, 1967, pp. 389-415; The Letter and the Text. Thirty Years of Research on the History of the Book, 1987, pp. 432-477. From the library of the Château de Merlemont (engraved armorial bookplate). Minor rubbing to the binding. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°42. - Renouard, p. 183. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°82.
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