Michel d'AMBOISE. Le Secret d'Amours ou sont contenues plusieurs lettres tant en rithme qu'en prose, fort recreative a tous Amans... - [François HABERT]. Le Livre des visions fantastiques du Banny de lyesse, natif d'Yssouldun en Berry, ou sont contenues les amours infortunées de deux amans... Paris, Les Angeliers, 1542 [François HABERT]. La Nouvelle Venus, par laquelle est entendue pudique Amour... Paris, L'Angelier, s. d. (1547) - Janus OLIVIER. La Pandore... Newly translated... by Guillaume Michel de Tours. Paris, Les Angeliers, 1542. - Olivier de MAGNY. Hymne sur la naissance de Madame Marguerite de France... Paris, Les Angeliers, 1553. 5 works in one volume in-8, brown calf, decorated in the Du Seuil style with double framing of cold triple fillets and gilt lilies at the corners, cold fleurons in the centre, spine with 5 nerves decorated with cold fillets and cold and gilt fleurures (Binding of the period). Brunet, I-223 / III-3-4 / IV-181 // Quérard, II-455. I. (80 f.) / a-k8. II. LXXIX f.-(1 f.) / A-K8. III (28 f.) / A-G4. IV. LXIII f.-(1 f.) / A-H8. V. (34 f.) / a-h4-i2 / 100 x 163 mm. Rare collection of five works of poetry published by the Angelier brothers between 1542 and 1553. First edition of Secret d'amours by Michel d'Amboise, La Nouvelle Venus by François Habert, Hymne sur la naissance de Madame Marguerite de France by Olivier de Magny, translation of La Pandore by Janus Olivier and second edition of Livre des visions fantastiques by François Habert. Le Secret d'amours, described by De Backer as extremely rare, contains gallant letters in prose and verse, rondeaux, ballads and epigrams. The Livre des visions fantastiques, recounting the ill-fated love affairs of two lovers, is followed by various poetic pieces by François Habert, an Oraison à Jésus Christ, an Églogue sur la mort d'Erasme, various speeches, etc. La Nouvelle Vénus is chaste and her love is entirely spiritual. La Pandore suggests that women are the Pandora's box from which all the evils of this world have emerged, and Olivier de Magny's work is self-explanatory in its title. The first four books bear the Angeliers' mark on the first and last leaves, and the fifth volume has a fine architectural title frame with scrolls. A fine copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Binding previously restored. Beginning of a split at one hinge and a few stains on the boards.