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TRISTAN L'HERMITE François (1601-1655)
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TRISTAN L'HERMITE François (1601-1655)
Les Vers héroïques du Sieur Tristan Lhermite
Paris, chez J.B. Loyson et chez Nicolas Portier, 1648. Large in-8
(238 x 170 mm), [8] ff.-367 pp. Full brown speckled calf, boards framed with gilt fillet, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, edges speckled (early 18th century binding).
Rare first edition with its 7 copper engraved plates.
Armorial frontispiece for the Vers Héroïques| portrait of the Count of Saint-Aignan engraved by Daret and dated 1645| portrait of the author by
Daret after Louis du Guernier and dated 1648| allegorical frontispiece for the Vers Maritime| frontispiece for La Peinture de l'Infante
Isabelle, copy after Rubens| frontispiece for La Mort d'Hypolite| frontispiece by François Chauveau for La Maison d'Astrée.
Extract from the King's Privilege at the end of the volume.
Numerous pagination errors, but the text is complete.
A GOOD COPY (despite a few browned pages, and damaged binding).
PROVENANCE Louis Boyat, given the office of councillor at the parliament of Dombes in 1712 (Cf. Poidebard, Baudrier & Galle, Armorial des bibliophiles du Lyonnais, Forez, Beaujolais et de Dombes, p. 67) (engraved and armorial bookplate "Ex biblioth. Lud.
Boyat [...]" pasted on upper back cover).
REFERENCES Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, pp. 925-928: the bibliographer notes that the figures are often lacking. Neither Rothschild (I, 830) nor
Tchemerzine indicate the presence of the quire ** between Mm and Nn, which contains 5 poems absent from most copies| the quires Mm and ** which follow it are numbered by folio, in an illogical order (383, 382, 385, 384, 387, 388, 389, 390).
Les Vers héroïques du Sieur Tristan Lhermite
Paris, chez J.B. Loyson et chez Nicolas Portier, 1648. Large in-8
(238 x 170 mm), [8] ff.-367 pp. Full brown speckled calf, boards framed with gilt fillet, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, edges speckled (early 18th century binding).
Rare first edition with its 7 copper engraved plates.
Armorial frontispiece for the Vers Héroïques| portrait of the Count of Saint-Aignan engraved by Daret and dated 1645| portrait of the author by
Daret after Louis du Guernier and dated 1648| allegorical frontispiece for the Vers Maritime| frontispiece for La Peinture de l'Infante
Isabelle, copy after Rubens| frontispiece for La Mort d'Hypolite| frontispiece by François Chauveau for La Maison d'Astrée.
Extract from the King's Privilege at the end of the volume.
Numerous pagination errors, but the text is complete.
A GOOD COPY (despite a few browned pages, and damaged binding).
PROVENANCE Louis Boyat, given the office of councillor at the parliament of Dombes in 1712 (Cf. Poidebard, Baudrier & Galle, Armorial des bibliophiles du Lyonnais, Forez, Beaujolais et de Dombes, p. 67) (engraved and armorial bookplate "Ex biblioth. Lud.
Boyat [...]" pasted on upper back cover).
REFERENCES Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, pp. 925-928: the bibliographer notes that the figures are often lacking. Neither Rothschild (I, 830) nor
Tchemerzine indicate the presence of the quire ** between Mm and Nn, which contains 5 poems absent from most copies| the quires Mm and ** which follow it are numbered by folio, in an illogical order (383, 382, 385, 384, 387, 388, 389, 390).