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Lot n° 35

DU BARTAS (Guillaume de Salluste).

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La Seconde sepmaine. Reveue, augmentée, & embellie en divers passages, par l'Autheur mesme. - Suite des œuvres : contenant les Pères [...]. La Loy [...], & l'Histoire de Jonas. Édition nouvelle, augmentée d'un livre entier [...]. S.l. [Genève], Pour Jacques Chouët, 1593. 2 works in one volume, in-12, vellum over boards, double cold fillet, stamped design on first board, traces of binding (Binding of the period). Rare Geneva editions. This edition of the Seconde sepmaine retains the contents of the original 1584 edition, along with Simon Goulart's commentary first published in 1589. The Suite des œuvres, with commentary by the same polygraph, contains an unpublished poem: La Loy. To date, only one copy of the Suite des œuvres has been catalogued in France by the GLN, at the BnF (Arsenal). The other known copies are held in European institutions or in the United States. Old handwritten bookplate on title: Alexander Lünebürg. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°17-18. - GLN-3610 and 3611. - Picot, Rothschild, no. 3270 (for the 1589 edition of the Seconde sepmaine). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°241-242.