Lot no. 49
SALUSTE DU BARTAS (Guillaume de). Les Œuvres poétiques. Last edition. Rouen, Adrien Ovyn, 1610, In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Beautiful collective edition in small italic type. The front and back of the title are adorned with two woodcut vignettes.
The Gascon poet Guillaume du Bartas (1544-1590) is notably the author of La Semaine ou Création du Monde, which caused Ronsard to say: "M. du Bartas has done more in one week than I have done in my entire life".
A finely bound copy by Chambolle-Duru.
Upper hinge cracked.
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