Marocco signed Raparlier BRACH de LA MOTTE MONTUSSAN... Lot 266

Marocco signed Raparlier BRACH de LA MOTTE MONTUSSAN (Pierre de) OEuvres Poétiques, published and annotated by Reinhold DEZEIMERIS. Paris, Aubry, 1861-62. 2 volumes in-4: XXVIII, 6f., 356pp. / CX, 1f., 310pp. 1f. ; 2 folding plates, vignette portrait mounted in text. Edition of 260 copies, one of 60 on laid paper (unjustified). Midnight-blue morocco, signed RAPARLIER, ornate ribbed spine, Duseuil-style boards, slight rubbing, a small bump on one board, double gilt fillet on edges, interior lace, gilt edges. A fine copy. This little-known 16th-century Gascon poet was a friend of Montaigne and Du Bartas. According to Dezeimeris, he is the first of the second-rate poets. Millanges published a first edition of his poems in 1576 (Labadie 1778).