Discours Satyriques Et Moraux Ou Satyres Generales.
Rouen, R. Lallemant 1686.
12mo (150 x 91 mm.). [xiix], 125, [2]p..
Crushed light brown morocco (Chambolle-Duru), gilt-lettered black Morocco spine labels, all edges gilt over marbling, particolored silk marker.
First Edition. These poems mock slanderers, frivolous women, fools, shady financiers, Basques, libertine clerics, melancholics, aging powder pigeons, literary critics, the evils of war, flattering portraitists, vacuous courtiers, fashionable coiffures, Descartes, Copernicus and Malherbe. The closing piece decries “poets’ lies and extravagances”. In good condition (natural paper flaw on the title, three blank marginal tears, two repaired), from the libraries of Jules Noilly (Catalogue (1886) 242) and Édouard Moura (Beaux Livres (1921) 370), oval label removed from the front flyleaf, manuscript note of of T.S. Stewart dated February 1926 stating the binding decoration was done in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
¶Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l’amour, aux femmes et au mariage II: 357; Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand II: 373; Cioranescu 54571; Brunet IV: 529.
Price: $2,400.00