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Lot n° 76

LE JARS (Louis).

Estimate :
1 500 - 2 000 EUR
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Lucell [sic] tragi-comédie en prose françoise. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1596. In-12, black morocco, boards framed with a gilt fillet and decorated with a diamond-rectangle pattern drawn by scrolls of fawn morocco, gilt numeral in the center, ornate spine, fawn morocco lining, chocolate brown moire endpapers (Modern binding). Tragicomedy in prose, set against a backdrop of love and poisons, published in four successive editions between 1576 and 1596. This edition contains numerous apologetic pieces, including a quatrain by Ronsard. Nothing is known about Louis Le Jars, except that he was a relative of Marie Le Jars de Gournay, Montaigne's daughter-in-law. A few cuffs slightly damaged by the bookbinder's knife, otherwise a pleasant copy bound in the collector's cypher. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-2, n°58. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°473.

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