Pasquier, Estienne. - Les Œuvres d'Estienne Pasquier, conten - Lot 110

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Pasquier, Estienne. - Les Œuvres d'Estienne Pasquier, conten - Lot 110
Pasquier, Estienne. - Les Œuvres d'Estienne Pasquier, contenant ses Recherches de la France; son Playdoyé pour M. le Duc de Lorraine; celui de M° Versoris pour les jésuites, contre l'Université de Paris; clarorum virorum...; epigrammatum...; iconum liber...; ses lettres; ses oeuvres meslées; et les lettres de Nicolas Pasquier, fils d'Estienne. Amsterdam, Compagnie des libraires associez, 1723. 2 volumes in-folio bound in full contemporary calf, with boards decorated with a triple gilt fillet, arms stamped in the centre, very ornate ribbed spines, title and greeves, inner and outer scrollwork, red edges - in T I, headband damaged and small loss of leather flower at the bottom of the spine - [2 ff, fx-title, title], XXII, 1364 columns ; [2 ff.], XLIX, 1482 columns. The first volume deals with the "Recherches de la France", the "Playdoyé pour le duc de Lorraine", the "playdoyé de Versoris", the 6 books of the "Epigrammata", and 3 small texts in Latin. The second volume contains: the "Lettres d'Estienne Pasquier", the "Oeuvres Meslées" including the "Monophile", the "Colloques d'amour", the "Lettres amoureuses", the "Jeux poétiques", the "Poésies diverses", the "Puce des grands jours de Poictiers", the "Main", and the "Lettres de Nicolas Pasquier". Arms of Paulin Prondre (or Pronde) sieur de Guermantes et de Bussy (1650-1723) who was president of the Chambre des comptes de Paris. Etienne Pasquier (1529-1615), humanist, magistrate and poet, was particularly famous in his "Recherches de la France" where his method of reconstructing the past made him one of the precursors of modern historiography. A minor poet of the Pléiade movement, his prose works are especially noteworthy for their great agility of mind and reasoning.
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