AN EXTRACT FROM MONTEMAIOR'S DIANE - Lot 119

AN EXTRACT FROM MONTEMAIOR'S DIANE [MONTAUBAN (Jacques Pousset de) & MONTEMAIOR]. LES CHARMES DE FELICIE taken from the Diane de Montemaior. Pastorale. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, [Jean Elzevier à Leyde], 1657. A small elongated volume in-12, 93 pages, full cherry jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, gilt inner lace, gilt edges (Binding signed Cuzin). Bottom corner oiled. A fine copy. First and only Elzevirian edition (the original French edition dates from 1654). This pastoral, mentioned in Don Quixote's library, is set on the island of Erithrée in Portugal. It is dedicated to Mlle de Montmorency de Loresse. The author, a lawyer and man of letters, friend of Boileau and Racine, is said to have taken part in the writing of Les Plaideurs. Willems, 798; Palau, 177991. Bookplate on brown morocco of Lebarbier de Tinan.