Paris: Martin le Jeune, 1580.
A strange French translation of the Batrachomyomachia, the Iliadic mock-heroic poem recounting a battle between the honorable mice and odious frogs, and the crabs that are sent in by Zeus to destroy them all. Once attributed to Homer, the poem was widely taught in the.....
Paris: Didier Maheu for Pierre du Pin, 1534.
Only edition of the earliest printed document of the largest and most venerated of all Parisian brotherhoods, the Grand Confraternity of Notre Dame, whose roots reach to the eleventh century. The grande confrérie Notre-Dame, a pious, tightknit group that advocated a life.....
Paris: Gabriel Buin, 1563.
Fine copy, with esteemed provenance, of Pierre de Ronsard's verse conduct book, addressed to recently crowned 11-year-old Charles IX, on how to rule a kingdom, and how to comport in both public and private. The poem was composed in the tradition of the speculum principum, or.....
Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....
Paris? 1578?
A request directed to Henri III of France to reduce the tax burden on the good subjects of Burgundy, arguing by virtue of case studies of suffering Burgundians that existing taxes and obligatory tributes are too large a strain on the tax base. The treshumble request is framed.....