BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE (François). Les Apprehensions spirituelles, poems and other philosophical works. Paris, Timothée Jouan, 1584. - Les Souspirs amoureux. Ibid, 1584. 2 works in one volume in-12, red morocco, triple cold fillet, spine decorated in the same style, gilt inner lace, gilt edges (Bauzonnet-Trautz). Second issue of the original edition of the first two collections published by Béroalde de Verville (1556-1626), which are sometimes found together. These two early works, combining alchemy, philosophy and love poetry, were originally published in 1583 and reissued the following year. The Apprehensions spirituelles are a collection of moral reflections and metaphysical and hermetic dissertations on how to achieve the Great Work. They occupy the first 55 pages and are followed by two long poems: Les Cognoissances necessaires and Le Livre de l'âme, then by three prose dialogues dealing respectively with Honneste amour, Bonne grâce and Le Bien de la mort. The volume ends with Recherches sur la pierre philosophale. Les Souspirs amoureux contains sixty-three poems by the author of Moyen de parvenir, followed by a long satirical speech in verse by Nicolas Le Digne directed against those who write about love and lament imaginary loves. Although he was a canon, Béroalde de Verville never ceased to insert into his poetry "extremely free pieces", and even "in his most serious works, obscenities worthy of appearing in Le Moyen de parvenir", notes Brunet. A very fine copy, perfectly established by Bauzonnet-Trautz. Small hole affecting two letters (f. B12) and a leaf with shorter margins (f. D6) in the first work. Brunet, I, 804 - Tchemerzine-Scheler, I, 648-650 - De Backer, I, nos 546-547 (dated 1583).