PASQUIER (Étienne).

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PASQUIER (Étienne).
Les Lettres. Paris, Laurent Sonnius, 1619. 3 volumes in 6 volumes. - PASQUIER (Nicolas). Les Lettres. Contenant divers discours des affaires arrivées en France, soubs les Règnes de Henry le Grand & Louys XIII. Paris, Gervais Alliot, 1623. One volume in 2 volumes. Together 8 volumes in-12, black morocco, lace with small irons and cold coat of arms, spine decorated with cold, inner lace, marbled edges (Binding around 1700). Beautiful collection bound in black morocco with the coat of arms of Louis-Urbain Le Fèvre de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange (1653-1720), finance steward of Louis XIV. It is formed in the following way: - the Letters of the poet, magistrate and humanist Étienne Pasquier (1529-1615), in the edition of 1619 in 3 volumes which is the most complete (Tchemerzine, t. V, p. 90). Volume III is entitled Œuvres meslées and includes the Monophile, the Colloques d'amour, the Lettres amoureuses and the Poésies, with, at the end, La Puce de Madame Desroches and La Main; this one is adorned with a beautiful portrait of Étienne Pasquier engraved in intaglio by Thomas de Leu, facing the particular title of La Main. Volume I incomplete of the last 4 introductory leaves (end of the table, including the last leaf containing on the verso the portrait of the author engraved by Léonard Gaultier) and the last 4 leaves of the table. Engraved portrait after L. Gaultier added at the head of volume I. - the Letters of Nicolas, son of the previous, in first edition, decorated with a copper-engraved portrait by Crispin de Passe. Uniform foxing, wetness on the edge of about ten leaves at the end of volume III. Old reading marks. Chipping to a headpiece, slight rubbing to the spines.
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