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Les délices de l'esprit. Dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde. 4 volumes in one. With 4 engraved titles, 18 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes. 35,5 x 23 cm. Contemporary marbled calf (slightly rubbed, scratched and spotted) with gold pressed spine title and gilt spine. Paris, Florentin Lambert, 1661.

The magnum opus of the poet and first Secretary of the Académie Française Second edition; the first was published in 1658. The magnum opus of the poet and first Chancellor of the Académie Française, Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676), in which he ‘vividly describes the soul’s ascent to God and the delights of a life devoted to God’ (LThK III, 225). Saint-Sorlin was a favourite of Cardinal de Richelieu, at whose instigation he wrote numerous plays. The copperplate title page of Part I (verso) bears an old, overwritten dedication. Inside cover with a handwritten signature entry. Some pages have slightly damp edges; occasionally slightly browned; a few leaves in the fourth part are heavily browned, with slight brown stains, as well as a few darkened damp spots. - Brunet II, 635. Landwehr 258. Tchemerzine, Livres à figures, 117. Vgl. Hofer XIII, 846.

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