Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

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Property of the Trustees of the Sandys Trust removed from Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Ronsard, Les oeuvres, Paris, 1623, 2 volumes, later calf

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June 11, 02:50 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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RONSARD, PIERRE DE


Les oeuvres... reveues et augmentees et illustrees de commentaires et remarques. Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1623


2 volumes, folio (344 x 219mm.), volume I: half-title, engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Richelet, woodcut portrait of Muret, engraved portrait of Ronsard and Cassandre Salviati, engraved portraits of Henri II, Charles IX, Henri III, François duc d'Anjou and Henri de Lorraine, duc de Guise; volume II: engraved device on title-page, engraved portraits of Anne de Joyeuese, Mary Stuart, Jean Louis de Nogaretz, François II, Catherine de Médicis, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, eighteenth-century calf, flat spines with red morocco lettering-pieces, first half-title becoming loose, occasional browning, Qq4 torn without loss, small hole in 7D6, bindings rubbed, joints cracked


LITERATURE:

Tchemerzine 9, p.485