LA GESSÉE (Jean de). - Lot 88

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LA GESSÉE (Jean de). - Lot 88
LA GESSÉE (Jean de). Ɵ Les Soupirs de la France, sur le Départ du Roi de Pologne : Contenant plusieurs Sonets nouvellement faits à ce propos, en faveur des Princes, & grands Seigneurs de ce Roiaume. Paris, Gilles Blaise, 1573. Booklet in-4, brown morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt coat of arms in the center, spine decorated, gilt inner fillet, case (G. Plumelle). First edition of this collection of 27 sonnets celebrating the departure of Duke Henri d'Anjou, brother of Charles IX, for Poland, which, deprived of a monarch since the death of Sigismund II, had elected him king on May 9, 1573. Jean de La Gessée, a Protestant, was born in Mauvezin in the Gers and had miraculously survived the St. Bartholomew. Among the addressees of his sonnets, princes or great men of the kingdom, are Charles IX, the Duke of Alençon, the Duke of Montpensier, the Prince of Condé, the Duke of Guise, the Duke of Aumale, the Duke of Nemours, etc. A perfectly bound copy, with the arms of the collector. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°1. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°94. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°416.
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