DE SALLENGRE, Albert-Henri de. Histoire de Pierre de Montmau - Lot 190

DE SALLENGRE, Albert-Henri de. Histoire de Pierre de Montmaur, professeur royal en langue grecque dans l'Université de Paris. La Haye, C. Van Lom, P. Gosse & R. Alberts, 1715. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-8. Contemporary full calf, ornate ribbed spine, pink morocco title-piece. "Very rare first edition" of this collection of satires directed against Pierre de Montmaur (1576-1648), "one of the greediest men of his time". "An erudite, greedy and parasitic libertine". Engraved frontispiece and title vignette repeated in the second volume, and eight handsome hors-texte plates by Bleyswyk, some of them very curious. Spine rubbed, damage to upper cover, rubbing to corners and spines. Cohen, 937. Oberlé, 374.