URFÉ (Honoré d'). - Lot 178

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URFÉ (Honoré d'). - Lot 178
URFÉ (Honoré d'). - L'Astrée. A Paris, Chez Anthoine de Sommaville, s. d. (t. I) & A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1647, 1646 & 1647 (t. II-IV), -- La Conclusion et derniere partie d'Astrée. A Paris, Chez Augustin Courbé, 1647. 60 books in 5 volumes in-12, calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Last complete edition, published in the 17th century, "printed in Roüen" and shared between the editors Toussaint Quinet, Augustin Courbé and Anthoine de Sommaville, and so-called "definitive" edition. - & -- "Reveuë & corrigée en cette derniere edition." (t. II to V). I : [VIII (title to 2 in deficit)] + 623 pp. II : [XVI] + 984 pp. III : [XXIV] + 1221 + [III] pp. IV : [XVI (f. to1 [portrait ?] in deficit)] + 1386 + [IV] pp. V : [XXXII] + 953 + [III] pp. Five title-frontispieces, ten portraits (including those of the author repeated five times, of the Asrée repeated four times [with a variant on that of vol. I], and that of Balthazar Baro) and 47 other engraved plates (instead of 60); bands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. I : 1 title-frontispiece and 2 portraits (the Astrée and the Author). II : 1 title-frontispiece, 2 portraits (the Author and the Astrée) & 12 plates. III : 1 title-frontispiece, 2 portraits (the Astrée and the Author), & 12 plates. IV : 1 title-frontispiece, 1 portrait of the Author, & 12 plates. V : 1 title-frontispiece, 3 portraits (Baro, the Astrée and the Author), & 11 plates. Volume I of the present copy, which lacks the title page, comes from another edition and has only 623 pages numbered at 34 lines, instead of 855 at 30 lines, and has no plates. Compared to the copy described by Tchemerzine (X, 445), this one offers two more portraits of the author (t. I and V) and one less of the Astrée (t. IV). Bindings damaged; wetness & wormholes; small accidents on a few leaves (notably on vol. III, f. 401-402, and IV, f. 725-726); wet stamp on titles; title page of vol. I (at2) lacking and f. at1 (a portrait?) of vol. IV as well, as well as the plate of book I of vol. V. Titles-frontispices and portraits of t. I, II & V, short of margins; wet stamp of "Petit Séminaire de Troys" repeated on volumes. Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, 945.
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