Lot no. 256
RECUEIL de quelques pièces nouvelles et galantes tant en prose qu'en vers. Cologne, Pierre du Marteau, [Hollande, Elzévier], 1667. 2 parts in one volume in-12, lemon morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Third Elzévirienne edition, increased by half, of this collection originally published in 1663. It includes La Fontaine's poem dedicated to Fouquet, here entitled "Élégie pour le malheureux Oronte", and pieces by Boileau, Tallemant, mademoiselle de Scudéry, madame de La Suse, etc. Spine faded. Willems 1387.
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