Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Faret, L'honneste homme, Paris, 1639, contemporary vellum

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700 - 900 GBP

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FARET, NICOLAS. L’Honeste Homme, ou, l’Art de Plaire à la Cour. Paris: Nicolas & Jean de la Coste, 1639


Second edition of this work, first published in 1630, in a contemporary vellum binding.


Nicolas Faret (1600-1646) was a French statesman, scholar, and writer. He participated in the founding of the Académie Française in 1634.

8vo, 165 x 110 mm. Roman type, 22 lines plus headline. collation: ā4 A-O8 P4 (final verso blank): 120 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, occasional pencil annotations. (Some foxing, worming to upper margin of first 3 leaves and lower margin of final 3 leaves.)


binding: Contemporary vellum (166 x 116 mm), flat spine. (Binding somewhat soiled, endpapers wormed, upper endpaper torn at margins.)


provenance: "C.R.", initials on title-page. acquisition: Purchased in 1968 on the Quays, Paris. references: USTC 6004329 (lists as a lost book)

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