25th Sep, 2019 10:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
Lot 26
 

Corneille (Pierre) Le Théâtre...reveu et corrigé, et augmenté de diverses pièces nouvelles, vol. 1 only, 9 parts in one with separate titles and pagination (includes Melite, Clitandre, La Vefve, La Galerie du Palais, La Suivante, La Place Royalle, Medee, L’Illusion), engraved frontispiece, zoomorphic tailpieces, lacking author’s portrait, tiny paper flaws to E1 & S3, one frontispiece margin trimmed, minor spotting, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, upper hinge and endband cracked, [Graesse, II, 266; Picot, no 381; Tchemerzine, IV, pp. 124-126; Olivier, 1586], 12mo, Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris [Amsterdam, [Abraham Wolfgang], 1664. *** From the rare edition of the complete suite of the pieces of Corneille (see Picot, n ° 381). The editions by Abraham Wolfgang can be identified by the use of his device, a tree with bees and fox with the motto, ‘Quaerendo’, and his curious tail-pieces (monkey-like creature, fox, squirrel, birds).
Estimated at £400 - £600

 

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