DU MONIN (Jean-Édouard). L'Uranologie, ou Le Ciel [...] Contenant, outre l'ordinaire doctrine de la Sphære, plusieurs beaus discours dignes de tout gentil esprit. A Paris, Chez Guilhaume Iulien, 1584. In-12, calf, smooth ornate spine, long title (late 17th c. binding) [XVI] + 210 ff. (out of 212), with foliation error at end of work. Second edition published one year after the original of this poem of over 6,500 verses, dedicated to Philippe Desportes, "the only long astronomical poem in French Renaissance literature" (Isabelle Pantin). From the libraries of Abbé Goujet (1697-1767), Claude-François Aymonet de Contréglise (March 1852) & Pierre Louÿs, with handwritten bookplate in pink ink on title page. ff. 118 & 119 (V2 & V3) lacking; small restoration at head; first jaw cracked over 5 cm; "tome 4" scratched on title as on all copies consulted, including those of the original edition; wetness on first 14 and last 31 leaves; accident with restored loss in margin of ff. 1 to 41. Pantin, La Poésie du ciel en France [...], 315; Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire [...], no. 300 (for the first edition). EXEMPLAIRE IN ANCIENT BINDING HAVING BELONGED TO THE JANSENIST WRITER Claude-Pierre GOUJET, then to Pierre LOUŸS.
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DU MONIN (Jean-Édouard). L'Uranologie, ou Le Ciel [...] Contenant, outre l'ordinaire doctrine de la Sphære, plusieurs beaus discours dignes de tout gentil esprit. A Paris, Chez Guilhaume Iulien, 1584. In-12, calf, smooth ornate spine, long title (late 17th c. binding) [XVI] + 210 ff. (out of 212), with foliation error at end of work. Second edition published one year after the original of this poem of over 6,500 verses, dedicated to Philippe Desportes, "the only long astronomical poem in French Renaissance literature" (Isabelle Pantin). From the libraries of Abbé Goujet (1697-1767), Claude-François Aymonet de Contréglise (March 1852) & Pierre Louÿs, with handwritten bookplate in pink ink on title page. ff. 118 & 119 (V2 & V3) lacking; small restoration at head; first jaw cracked over 5 cm; "tome 4" scratched on title as on all copies consulted, including those of the original edition; wetness on first 14 and last 31 leaves; accident with restored loss in margin of ff. 1 to 41. Pantin, La Poésie du ciel en France [...], 315; Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire [...], no. 300 (for the first edition). EXEMPLAIRE IN ANCIENT BINDING HAVING BELONGED TO THE JANSENIST WRITER Claude-Pierre GOUJET, then to Pierre LOUŸS.

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DU MONIN (Jean-Édouard). L'Uranologie, ou Le Ciel [...] Contenant, outre l'ordinaire doctrine de la Sphære, plusieurs beaus discours dignes de tout gentil esprit. A Paris, Chez Guilhaume Iulien, 1584. In-12, calf, smooth ornate spine, long title (late 17th c. binding) [XVI] + 210 ff. (out of 212), with foliation error at end of work. Second edition published one year after the original of this poem of over 6,500 verses, dedicated to Philippe Desportes, "the only long astronomical poem in French Renaissance literature" (Isabelle Pantin). From the libraries of Abbé Goujet (1697-1767), Claude-François Aymonet de Contréglise (March 1852) & Pierre Louÿs, with handwritten bookplate in pink ink on title page. ff. 118 & 119 (V2 & V3) lacking; small restoration at head; first jaw cracked over 5 cm; "tome 4" scratched on title as on all copies consulted, including those of the original edition; wetness on first 14 and last 31 leaves; accident with restored loss in margin of ff. 1 to 41. Pantin, La Poésie du ciel en France [...], 315; Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire [...], no. 300 (for the first edition). EXEMPLAIRE IN ANCIENT BINDING HAVING BELONGED TO THE JANSENIST WRITER Claude-Pierre GOUJET, then to Pierre LOUŸS.
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