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Satyre Menippée de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne : et de la tenuë des Estats de Paris. A laquelle est adjousté un discours sur l'interpretation du mot de higuiero d'infierno, & qui en est l'autheur. Plus le Regret sur la mort de l'asne ligueur d'une damoiselle, qui mourut durant le siege de Paris. Avec des remarques & explications des endroits difficiles.

Accession number
PML 1750
Published
A Ratisbonne : Chez Mathias Kerner, 1664.
Notes
Title vignette: a globe.
Fictitious imprint: printed by F. Foppens in Brussels, attributed to the Elzevier house.
First published 1594 (1593?).
Some early editions were published under title: La vertu du catholicon d'Espagne.
Supposed to be inspired by Jean Le Roy. The different prose pieces are by Jacques Gillot, Florent Chrestien, Nicolas Rapin and Pierre Pithou, the verses by Jean Passerat, Nicolas Rapin and Gilles Durant, the remarks and notes by Pierre Dupuy.
2nd ed. of the year 1664, containing two plates of the charlatans, besides the folding plate of the procession.
Contains the Vertu du catholicon d'Espagne, the Procession de la Ligue and the Pièces de tapisseries dont la salle des états fut tendue which are attributed to Pierre Le Roy, the verse to Passerat and Pierre Rapin and the "harangues" to J. Gillot who had Florent-Chrestien and P. Pithou as collaborators.
Description
[4 leaves], 336 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill.
Provenance
De Forest collection.
Binding
Red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department