NOURRY COPY CITED BY PALAU - Lot 83

NOURRY COPY CITED BY PALAU [LOUBAYSSIN DE LA MARCA]. LES TROMPERIES DE CE SIECLE, histoire véritable arrivé de nostre temps... enrichie et augmentée plusieurs singulières annotations qui contiennent des Moralitez excellentes lesquelles se voyent la nature de l'amour et ses effects ; le pouvoir de la Beauté & les Moeurs et inclinations de femmes. Paris, Mathurin Henault, 1639. One volume in-8 (16 ff, 422 pp, 1 f), full bradel of dark speckled paper, smooth spine with handwritten label, spine rubbed, snag at lower cuff. First translation of Déganes from Languedoc (an earlier translation was given by F. de Rosset in 1618). The Spanish original appeared in 1615 under the title Engaños de este siglo. Jose Manuel Losada Goya (Bibl. crit. de la Litt. esp. en France au XVIIème siècle) n°244: "... One might suppose that this is a work of morality. However, it describes the ruses of one of the characters who wants to sleep with his former mistress married to another man... It is in fact a novel with an ironic title... (it is) a novella, and if we take into account the two episodes at the beginning, after many cuts, we find elements typical of the picaresque novel and even the pastoral and the chivalric novel. " The influence of Cervantes is obvious. Palau, 142661, who cites this copy with the label of E. Nourry. An early signature on the title: Garbecq (?). In fine, small pencil notes by Paris bookseller Bazy.