PASQUIER, Etienne - Les Lettres d'Estienne Pasquier, Conseil - Lot 361

PASQUIER, Etienne - Les Lettres d'Estienne Pasquier, Conseiller & Advocat General du Roy à Paris. Contenans plusieurs belles matieres & discours sur les affaires d'Estat de France, & touchant les guerres civiles. Paris, Laurent Sonnius, 1619. 2 vols. pet. in-8, (12) ff. including engraved portrait by Léonard Gaultier, 843 pp., (27) ff. ; (8) ff. 810 pp., (28) ff.., 3 leaves of the table of volume I partly redone by hand, pencil underlining, portrait on the first page of the text, paper yellowed, 17th c. fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, coat of arms at foot, hinges partly split, two capes faded. TCH V, 90. most complete edition, containing twenty-two books, shared with Jean Petit-Pas. A third volume of Oeuvres mêlées is sometimes included. The letters were composed between 1552 and 1614 (the year before Pasquier's death), and addressed to such important figures as Antoine Loisel, Ronsard, Sébillet, the Cardinal of Lorraine, Turnèbe, Denis Sauvage, Ramus, Pontus de Tyard, Du Faur de Pibrac, Sainte-Marthe, Pithou, d'Ossat, de Thou, Harlay, La Croix du Maine, etc., as well as to a number of other writers. While he discussed ancient history, morality and literature, he was also preoccupied with the events of his time, particularly the civil war. Unidentified arms (O-H-R pl. 2171 verso).