Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CLAVIÈRE, ÉTIENNE DE. Figure Emblématique en Trois Langues et seulement en une visible de soy, où se peut voir une Fleur de Loüanges du Roy Tres-Chrestien, de la Royne, de Monseigneur le Dauphin, et de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. 54, [1] pages. 8vo, 165x107 mm, 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt; contents heavily toned, scattered marginal foxing, title soiled with blank upper outer corner off. From the Sackner Collection of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Paris: Robert Foüet, 1607

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first edition of a trilingual acrostic poem on the birth of the Duke of Orléans, with explanatory text, without illustrations or mottoes, "loosely described as an emblem book"--Landwehr/Romanic 228. Praz, page 306.