Lot n° 430
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DE SALLENGRE, Albert-Henri de.
History of Pierre de Montmaur, royal professor of Greek language in the University of Paris. The Hague, C. Van Lom, P. Gosse & R. Alberts, 1715. 2 volumes in 1 in-8. Full contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated, pink morocco title-piece. "Very rare first edition" of this collection of satires directed against Pierre de Montmaur (1576-1648), "one of the most greedy men of his time". "An erudite, greedy and parasitic libertine".
Engraved frontispiece and title vignette repeated in the second volume, and eight handsome hors-texte plates by Bleyswyk, some of them very curious.
Spine rubbed, accident to the upper headpiece, rubbing to the corners and spines.
Cohen, 937. Oberlé, 374.
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